It took time to create time, to begin at the beginning, to speak out the sun, moon, and stars – setting up alternate spindles of day and night…

God sends out Gabriel with a message. Taken from a scene in the Holy of Holies where angels overshadow the mercy seat of God, the power of the Most High overshadows a young girl with the miracle of a virgin birth.

God made the sun to rule the day, and the moon, the night (Gen. 1:3-4). He made the stars too, calling the whole backdrop we see, the sky (Gen. 1:16). From it comes heralded help and hurled down judgement. (Ex. 16:13-14; I Kings 18:37-38).

By way of a crazy-eyed Abram who saw beyond the stars, through the whored veil of Tamar who turned a trick on Judah, up Rahab’s red sash and hiding atop the lonely Jericho room…

Everything dropped / Heavy gravity / Heaven stumbled into the magnetic prop / that is Earth.

As she cripples her way in, the room turns. She stands several heads shorter than her brother and hobbles along, dragging one leg that never returns any answers. With every step she tries to keep up with her family, linked together by tired arms and sweaty hands.

To his mother Mary, a Son and Savior. (Luke 1:47;2:16)
For the wise men, the king that has come. (Matthew 2:11)
Salvation seen for Simeon. (Luke 2:30)

When Eden gets boarded up by Adam and Eve’s sin, we begin to wander far away. We try to prop up a tower of our own, made from the stuff of rivalry and conceit. But God baptizes our arrogance in his judgement, setting his servant adrift on an ark.

God looked out from his Sabbath rest, before creation leapt from his lips, and chose to establish earth out of nothing.