In the Beginning

So, now that I have dropped an album (WOO! Thanks for your support, friends!), I have been doing a lot of daydreaming and hoping and planning for album 2!  I had already decided that it was most likely going to be titled, “Old Testament Songs,” because I have so many of them and a lot of them are ones that I want to record next.  But, I began thinking it would be really cool to place them in chronological order on the album.  That, unfortunately, left me starting with my character sketch of Jacob, which seems awkward.  The more I thought about it, the more I loved the idea of starting the album with a song about creation and the start of the story and entitle it “In the Beginning.”  And God was just ready to download a song into my brain, I guess, because it wasn’t a week later that a beautiful song was written in its entirety.

“In the Beginning” is about the creation story, naturally.  But the theme that really struck me as I wrote was the fact that God knew what He was getting into.  If we believe He is all-knowing, He knew He would love His creation, but that they would rebel, and He would have to same them.  Some times I think we take the easy way out and explain to others, especially kids, that God made the word, we messed it up, so God had to come up with a “plan B.”  He knew, and yet so much of the mystery is that He decided we were worth it, the pain and suffering and sadness He would endure was worth it, for our benefit and His glory.  I marvel at the fact that He made us in His image and was willing, from the beginning, to save us.

In the Beginning

Imagine the void before the universe
Imagine the darkness before a dawn
When the Spirit of God hovered above waters without form

Imagine the moment before the world was made
Imagine the silence before there was song
As the Father who knows all that’s to come, breathes in and waits no more

In the beginning, He said, “Let there be light,” and there was
With His breathing, there became life out of dust
Setting in motion, a Love most glorious
And it was good

A deafening sound as the waters split
And up from the ground, a blossoming canvas
As Father, Spirit, and Son call to form all creation

In the beginning, He said, “Let there be light,” and there was
With His breathing, there became life out of dust
Setting in motion, a Love most glorious
And it was good

Starlight streaming down from the heavens to the earth
Where new life breathed in, awaiting one final birth
Made in the image of the One who spoke the words
And it was very good

In perfect love, He walked the garden then
Not fearing the fall, for His will was set
The Son would become the One to drink the cup, inviting all life to begin again