Chapter Two: The First Three Days

The light. It shined over all creation, emanating from God’s fingers, and shown on the face of the deep where only darkness once had been. The light was good. God was the light. The Lord divided the light from the darkness and called the light Day, and the darkness Night. He held dominion over all of it, the light and the dark. Thus the evening and the morning were the first day. The first day of a new world, a new creation. The beginning. Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” And the waters that had once covered the whole of creation with a flowing stream parted and the sky, glorious and free, came into being. God spoke, and it was so. The Spirit of God was in the midst, hovering always over the waters, and flying swiftly through the skies. God called the firmament Heaven, to surround and support the earth, leaving two waters, those above the heavens, and those below; to create a divide so that Lucifer could no longer have free passage into the heavens. This was the evening and the morning of the second day. Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. The God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth.” and it was so. So was the beginning of growth, as the earth brought forth grass, herb, and tree, whose seed it bears within itself according to its kind. The beginning of birth, the beginning of an adventure. The beginning of life. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.