First day of Lent - Ash Wednesday - Creation

Big Bang by David Parker
Credit: Fine Art America

I nod to my Muslim colleagues and friends as I cup my hands in prayer. Ramadan and Lent are taking place at the same time. This must be very rare.  

This is my take on creation.

Into the vastness of space, the Creator released a handful of dust.  Initially it spread out like a fine even mist.  Then. as the equilibrium across the field of particles becomes unsettled, each atom pulls persistently on the next.  Eventually the the nudging became irresistible, and the particles slowly moved towards each other.  Proximity accelerates the movement following an exponential curve, doubling, tripling the speed of attraction; ever faster.  

Within the freedom of space, the particles career at full pelt towards the same point.  They collided in a 'big bang'.  The impact was so great it creates fusion and fission reactions between the atoms.  New elements are created, and releases enormous heat, greater than anything we have ever know.  The explosion sends lumps of molten rock far out into space, spinning like the pistols of an engine, 4000x rotations a minute.  Days fly past.

The physical world is created.  Life, a seed, is set on it's inevitable and predictable trajectory.  All is known to the Creator, within this unpredictable chaos.  

As with the butterfly flapping it's wing over China, eventually causing storms over Canada, so the abstract art of diversity hones all that is, animate and inanimate. 

Eventually there is a being that looks up.  A being that not only lives with it's Creator, but also looks to know and understand.  Like the baby who realises over time that these people who care for me, are like me, and that I can interact with them.  That I am experiencing 'love', and we are having fun together. So too we all relate to our Creator, and realise they have been there all along, and without them this miracle would not be.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1 :15 -17

PRAYER: You have always been with us.  We see you more clearly now.  We love and adore you.