The birth of Jesus starts the story of the New Testament. I've always felt that Christmas is a good time to reflect on the way the Old Testament starts the story of all things. Before there was a world to redeem a world was made.
Long before the birth of Jesus, God made flesh, human beings were formed and wrought by the creative impetus of a Love incapable of self-absorption. That seems to be something of what John's Gospel is saying in chapter 1.
And out of that Eternal Love came all that is made, including human beings, with all the risk and cost that would entail. And God still did it.
Whatever else we make of the omniscience of God, that strangely technical word refers to that universe of deep and eternal knowing that we call the Love of God.
Three Fibonacci Poems on Creation and Incarnation.*
Creation
Let
there
be light!
Creation,
from first to last, an
imperative fiat of love,
as Benign Being invites a universe to be.
Rest
God's
peace!
Sabbath
observance.
God's recreation.
Well done good and faithful God.
Now our harder task. Curators of God's masterpiece.
Incarnation
First
word
becomes
final word.
What else could God do,
but wrap words in flesh, be born as
God whose love exhausts whole lexicons of spelled out words?
(c) Jim Gordon
Fibonacci poems follow the mathematical fibonacci sequence, the syllables counted as follows.
- 1 syllable for first line
- 1 syllable for second line
- 2 syllables for third
- 3 syllables for fourth
- 5 syllables for fifth
- 8 syllables for sixth
- 13 syllables for seventh
You can find out more about it all over here - https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/fibonacci-poetry-a-new-poetic-form
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