Chapter 1 and 2 

OUT OF DARKNESS AND INTO 

"THE LIGHT" 

DO YOU FIND LIFE DIFFICULT

ARE YOU FEELING TRAPPED BY YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES

OR

IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS ABOUT LIFE AND CREATION

This Series of Writings May be of Help

Here you will find some facts, parables, illustrated stories, metaphors and, my own theological and spiritual perspectives.  Within the writings, if you are open minded, you may discover some truths about yourself and about the world that we live in.    

               In the beginning there was darkness and the darkness

covered the earth.  It was in that darkness that Chaos was conceived and God allowed Chaos its rightful place in creation. 

   Genesis 1: 1-2

To be fully human you were born in the darkness of your mothers womb. While in that darkness you were innocent and unaware, you were not meant to stay in darkness or remain innocent, you were meant to live.  So then, I invite you to begin. 

                                                    COME TO THE LIGHT  

My hope and prayer is that you may find these writings and their content a comfort in a world that likes to keep us in the dark, a world that would like us to believe in its illusions.

Chapter 1 and 2 

IN THE BEGINNING

 In the beginning, there was darkness, and the darkness covered the earth. In the darkness, chaos was conceived, and both darkness and chaos were given their rightful place in creation. Out of creative genius, God brought light into creation, and in that light, hope was conceived. God gave both light and hope their rightful place, and darkness and chaos would never be the same again.

According to a creation myth found in the ancient Hebrew writings of the Old Testament, God then created a garden and called it Eden.  It was there in that garden that humankind began and was allowed the will to choose.  The gift of free will can be your worst enemy at times.     

YOU WERE THERE IN THE BEGINNING

Have you ever had the notion that before you were born, you existed?  The Prophet Jeremiah tells us in one of his writings from chapter 1: verses 4-5, {New International  Version} and I quote: “The word of the Lord came to me saying, before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Some people experience what they call déjà-vu.  They sometimes feel they have been in a place or experienced the same thing before.  The thought has been that we all have past lives that we lived before.  Well if the prophet Jeremiah is right, you did.  We all came from one original seedpod did we not?  Quantum physics and other scientific discoveries in the last century are beginning to enlighten us to the fact that we are all connected together in a string of genetic imprints, and they in turn are connected to the universe and creation itself.  

All life as we know it came from a seedpod and every seedpod has a genetic imprint and memory from its origins, or where it came from and how to reproduce itself.  In other words it has a form of intelligence.   Let us call this our collective genetic gen pool.  One original seedpod where everyone who ever was or will be came from.   Are you following me?   

I believe that some of us get glimpses from our ancestral genetic gen pool and memory bank in such a way that we experience past events in the human seeds history.  If this is true, then wouldn’t we also be connected to the energy that created everything in some ingenious way?  I believe this to be true. 

FROM ONE SEED

 I worked up a children’s story to be delivered at a Baptist church in a small mining town in Nova Scotia where I had been invited to sing and share a faith story with the children.   I had pre-cut an apple so I could pull it apart easily and expose some apples seeds.  When it came time to present my story I twisted the apple and it open ever so easily.  One of the children exclaimed “how you do that”  “It a mystery” I explained.  I then proceeded to pop out one of the tiny seeds and ask if anyone could tell me what it was.  Of course someone shouted an apple seed.  Then I asked can anyone see inside this seed.  No answers.  “Well then, if you could look inside this apple seed what do you think you could see.”  One little boy exclaimed “more apples, trees and more seeds”  It was the same little boy who curiously asked me “How’d you do that” so I asked him, “How’d you know that?”  Then he blew me away by saying, “if you plant it, water it, and take care of it, it will show you its truth”.   This child blew me away!  

Have I got your attention?

Would you like to go a little deeper? 

Well then, let your imagination begin to work with this beautiful metaphor as I ask you this question.  If you could get sucked into that apple seed just for a moment what would you see?  Would it be possible for you to see beyond its potential?   I mean to see every apple, seed, and tree of that species there ever was or will ever be?  Wouldn’t that be amazing and can you begin to see in your mind’s eye, the handy work of its ingenious Creator.  

Can you now begin to see the possibility that you truly existed before you were born?   

Let me explain it this way. 

Science tells us that all life came from germinated seed in some form, so, there must have been an original, a beginning seed if you will, where all living things have a universal genetic connection.   Can your minds eye see your seed as coming from the ancestral genetic gene pool of the first human seed.   According to the Hebrew Bible we all come from the original seed of ADAM, a Hebrew word meaning Mankind.  Well, according to the Christian New Testament writings there was one human born who was not of the seed of ADAM.   The writings tell us that a young women by the name of Mary would become pregnant with a child but his conception would not take place by man, but would be conceived by the Holy Spirit .  This child would be called Jesus and would be free from the tainted seed of ADAM.  Fully human yet connected directly from the Divine.   We also know, according to the Hebrew creation story found in their Old Testament writings, that ADAM, the first of humankind was created from the dust of the earth and was given the gift of fee will.  In exercising his will to choose, ADAM creates a major problem for the coming generations, and for the seed they will produce.  I think I can paraphrase it this way.  ADAMS free will caused one particular side effect that awoke in him, humankinds ego.  ADAMS ego gets the better of him and he chooses to disobey his Creator and do things his way.   

Regardless of whether you see this story as fact or myth, there is an opportunity to find an underlying truth here.    

If you take the seed of a particular brand of apple, we know it has a history and genetic connection to the original tree that produced the first apple of its kind.  Even though you can only see the tree in your minds eye you know the tree exists.   You also know as did the boy in my children’s story that inside its seed lay the potential for future generations of that species.  Now if the original seed were to have picked up a genetic flaw during its conception or along the way in its evolution, it would pass the flaw along to future generations of that species.   

Because of that truth, there is the potential for more trees with more apples and more seeds.   We cannot see it with our eyes, or understand how it happens using our minds, but in our heart of hearts we know this potential exists because if you plant this seed, water and care for it properly, it will show you it's truth.   

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WHAT’S IS INSIDE A SEED

Here is where you have to stretch your imagination to again see another truth in this metaphor.   If you could look inside that apple seed for just a moment, and see its full potential in all its glory, you might be able to see every apple and every tree of that particular variety there ever was or ever will be.   Now think for a moment, if you were permitted to look into your human seed.  What would your minds eye see there?   Would it then be possible for you to see, every person there ever was or ever will be and the DNA strand that connects us to one another.   I truly believe that we are all connected by the seed of creation itself and to the entity that created us in some ingenious way.   Now that’s increasable!   There is an old black spiritual song with a metaphor that illustrates our connectedness, the lyric say “none of us are free, none of us are free, if one of us is chained none of us are free, none of us are free, if one of us is chained none of us are free.” Spiritually and genetically I believe we are all connected.  Our Black brothers and sisters have been singing about this for many years.  Take a moment and check out the song: 

Next time we will take a look at   "YOUR EDEN"