Taken From the Beginning
by Michael Doyle

When you understand the story,
You know more about the glory.
Starting with the power of the Trinity,
We need to fully explore this mystery.

Still, as we go against sinning,
It's best to begin at the beginning.
From formlessness, God brought His creation.
Light from darkness - there is separation.

Day from night, water from land,
So that each kind is as we understand.
All of His creation, as it is understood
Is everything that is holy and good.

It's amazing, all of which we find.
Every creature and plant is separated by kind.
Until God, at last, created humanity
In His image is out of love, not vanity.

Everything with life's breath
Was given to live until their death.
Adam and Eve were to live in perfection
With God Himself, before disconnection.

It's this absence and lost connection
That points us to the need for our redemption.
There is an order seen in His good design.
It's God's glory and our understanding to refine.

In all creation, we see God's artistry.
It's there to experience; all of HIs creativity.
In all of this, we've yet to see as it reveals
That in created humanity, also granted free will.

In God's abundance, He brought marriage together.
The wedding of Adam and Eve made the world better.
Despite the struggles, it is for what we are given
And shapes the good morality by which we are driven.

From a meaningless void, God brought His creation.
It is this that we come to celebrate in our inspiration.
Sin is often what we can't have but feel that we must,
And in taking this autonomy, we broke God's trust.

The definition of good and evil is the moral authority.
It is represented by the expression of the forbidden tree.
Man and woman were formed in God's image and dignity.
Imago Dei then our duty frames the meaning of humanity.

Falling for the apple's temptation was a matter of being weak.
Our shame showed up before God elected to speak.
Accepting our fall away from what had been our integrity,
Still, God sought Adam and Eve despite His sovereignty.

It's our self-location that points to the vast road
That lays out the rest of the Bible as we are told.
Instantly, from shame, we sought to shift blame.
But there was ownership and responsibility in this game.

From God's beautiful creation arose the great mystery
That came with the fall from grace and into our misery.
And thus began the world we know and God's ministry.
The past, as they say, is a matter of history.

Made in the image of God, we know our identity.
It's a choice that will bring us through eternity.
Stepping into the fall is best faced with humility.
In the honest and the real, we are one with God's divinity.

(c) January 11, 2026    Michael Doyle
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