I love that you noticed this. Fish and birds blessed before humans. It rearranges my sense of priority. God's concern is wider and older than our own.
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Yes — the source of all light is personal. That's a phrase I'm going to carry with me.
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"Let us make" — the deliberateness of humanity's creation is striking. Everything else God speaks into existence. For humanity, He pauses and confers. We are not an afterthought. We are the point toward which creation was building.
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"And there was light" — three words in Hebrew, three words in Latin, three words in Portuguese. Fiat lux. Some things translate perfectly across every language because they are simply true.
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