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Genesis: In The Beginning, God
Genesis: In The Beginning, God
Author: Martha Kilpatrick

God is the beginning of all. What He does not begin, ends at its beginnings. From the fountain of His boundless imagination flow the inventings of our finest ideas. We are merely cups of varying levels of receptivity. Some narrow, some wide. What we begin, drawing out of the cauldron of human depravity and calling it God's plan, will find no support from Him . . . and no Brilliance of His Glorious Mind. He must begin whatever is begun. He initiates. We respond. He proclaims. We hear. He gives. We receive. He imagines . . . we are simply the clay of His inventive molding.
 

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The Father's Loss

Author: Martha Kilpatrick  1 July 2001

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What Adam and Eve lost we know in part, and mourn. What God lost, we've never cared. God lost His lovely world, the creation of His joyous hand. The gift He formed for the pleasure of His children! And His pleasure in their pleasure.  Like senseless brutes, Eden's gardeners gave it to His Hater. Buying deluded intelligence, they gambled Paradise away. For a single piece of poison fruit, they lost their Benevolent God, the Blessed Home of their creation . . . and their own lives.   The Great Father lost His claymade masterpiece. The miraculous Bodies of His special genius, formed by His own touch, now possessed of evil. The Glorious Idea of man and woman, perverted ... read remainder of article

What Adam and Eve lost we know in part, and mourn.
What God lost, we've never cared.

God lost His lovely world,
the creation of His joyous hand.
The gift He formed for the
pleasure of His children!
And His pleasure in their pleasure. 

Like senseless brutes,
Eden's gardeners gave it to His Hater.
Buying deluded intelligence,
they gambled Paradise away.
For a single piece of poison fruit,
they lost their Benevolent God,
the Blessed Home of their creation . . .
and their own lives.
 

The Great Father lost His claymade masterpiece.
The miraculous Bodies of His special genius,
formed by His own touch, now possessed of evil.
The Glorious Idea of man and woman, perverted by
division, shredded by guilt.
That which was in and of His own holy image, spoiled.
Ruined.
Desecrated
and even . . . dead!

He was bereft of long planned companions,
the free-willed beings of His Dream.
He was robbed of His children and so
He lost . . . His Fatherhood to humanity.
Left to watch them die and die . . . and die.
To see them sink to such evil that
The Lord God was grieved that He had made
man on the earth, and
his heart was filled with pain.

Genesis 6:6

God's heart was broken by those First Created Ones
and their descendants . . . all like them.

Such agony we have given Him who is Only Good
that His vast eternal heart was filled to the full with grief.
Imagine the mammoth size of such pain!
Bigger than the universe, deeper than the firmament!

Despite "the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world,"
in spite of His being God who knows all . . .
still "his heart was filled with pain."

The pure first-children had become liars and cowards,
in the image of the Liar-Coward by eating
wicked reasonings from his hand.

The serpent laughed at all three.
Man . . . woman . . . God.
Especially God.

The Hater won!
The world was his and his terrorizing rule would be
blamed on God to make those
creatures of His joy, despise Him . . .
Delicious idea!
and the heinous purpose, all along. 

All was to be blamed on God.
Sordid whispers, always slandering Him.
Down through centuries of the Liar's tyranny.
The chanting cry of hell . . .
"All God's fault. All God's fault."

From the sin of humanity
to the corruption of the world and
even the devil's works . . . .

All is blamed on God.

 

 

Copyright © 2001 Martha Kilpatrick

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The Creation of Rest
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he...continue reading
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Endless Day
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1 June 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
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20
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