Creation

On the first day, God created the earth. Then he said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And the light was good. And then he said, "Let there be water and dry land," and he saw the dry land, and it was good too. And then he said, "Let there be plants and fruit," and they appeared and God figured they were good too. And then he said, "Let there be a sun and a moon," and, wouldn't you know it, they were good too. And then he made the animals and man and all that stuff. And at the end, he saw everything that he had made, and he thought it was all "very good."

Now, I certainly appreciate modesty, don't get me wrong, but "good"? Man, if I could point to a dry piece of land and frickin make a cow appear out of nothing, I think I'd be a little more excited. I'd be like, "Holy shit! Did you see that? Yeah, that's right. I just made a cow out of nothing. Mmmm hmmm, that's right I made a cow. You know it. You know I'm the master of the universe. Kneel down before Zod!"

All hubris aside, there's been a lot of creation going on around here, so it got me to thinking. To create, to build, to construct, to... running out of synonyms... create... anyway, to make something from nothing, or from something else entirely different, is one of the most satisfying things we can do. Whether you're creating a painting, a file cabinet, a grade, a report, a mixed drink, a holiday display, a batch of cookies, a baby, a smile, a joke, a phone call, a table... whatever the case may be, you know that you are in full control and that you helped to make something that previously did not exist. It's way deep.

A sense of accomplishment is something that we sometimes struggle to feel as we move from day to day in the chaos of life. Every once in while, we stop and say, "Hey, I did that!" and kick back with a cold one, genuinely satisfied with whatever the task may have been. But I think what we don't realize is that we have a profound effect on other people every second of every minute of every hour of every... you get the picture.

Every time you make someone think and every time you make someone laugh, that is a creation. That thought or that smile did not exist before you. It is new. Without the creation of these things, the world would remain stagnant and very boring.

Creation is very satisfying. We just have to stop and realize that we've accomplished something good. It's a great feeling. I created a painting today. And it is good.

Who wrote the Old Testament anyway? A two year old?