“Let there be light!”

Oh, they do love that bit! They think of being born and opening their eyes for the first time. Splendid! I was going for that.

“And He called the dry land Earth.”

Her name is pretty. If they only knew that came to me in a dream!

“He called the light day and the darkness night!”

Yeah, but…I gave them the sun and that thing does not stop pushing it out. But I guess if they want to think of its power starting and stopping maybe it’s easier. Anyways, I need to keep reading.

“Let the Earth bring grass and seed and tree.”

That I made those seeds sleep in the winter and come back in the spring. A nice touch, I’d say.

“And God made the stars and set them in the heavens.”

Wait. No, they aren’t in heaven. They are their neighbors. I wanted them to know they aren’t alone no matter where they are.

“And I shall bless the animals to be fruitful and multiply.”

Such a simple formula, too. A perfect harmony where everything and everyone has what they need. Though, this is missing the part where I told them, my human children, to appreciate it more than any other because they have a hunger that might interfere with that balance.

“Let us make man in our image.”

This is a bit troubling. My children are beautiful but I don’t have five fingers and toes. They want to see themselves as a part of me but I’m a part of the tree in their yards and the worm they just stepped on. If they think I look just like them, they’ll believe they have my power and my sight and some will be corrupted by this. Too many will be. How it was meant to be was, ‘See yourselves in each other.’

I wonder if this is a good idea.

“And God divided the light from the darkness.”

This book’s weighs heavy on me now. There are hard delineations and that was never my plan. They may see a volcano and call it evil but ignore the lush soil I designed it to create. If they think a thing is light or dark, they not see so much of the love and likeness. And that will bring such suffering and pain.

Will this divide them?