At the very start of things was God, and God decided to start things. Everything was all the same, everywhere, and nothing was itself. God blew around looking at everything, and finally decided things should start.
God spoke: Light up!
And things lit up. God liked it. Part of everything was dark, and part of everything was lit up, and God stood in between. God took the light that was lit up and shaped it into spheres. Each lit-up sphere was itself and between the spheres there was darkness. And God called the spheres “stars”.
Then God decided that there should be solid ground. So God took parts of the lit-up spheres and spun them out until they were solid globes. Each globe was itself and God made them to be companions to each other and to their stars, sharing the light and the darkness. God called the solid ground “earth”. And on the earth God made air to separate the solid ground from the darkness between the stars. And God liked it.
Then God walked on the solid ground and decided that there should also be waters on the face of the earth. God made the salty seas and the fresh rivers, the lakes and the swamps, and the rains and waterfalls. God liked it.
Then God decided that there should be life on earth. God started small, with algae and fungus. Soon there were ferns growing on the earth, and God liked it. Trees began to grow, and flowers, and vines, with wonderful fruit and beautiful colours. Each life was itself.
God spoke: Move around!
And life began to swim, and crawl, and fly, and think, and learn. God liked it very much! God put a blessing on the living things, and wished that they would bear fruit and become many.
God blew around looking at everything, and liked it all very much. Then God decided that there should be someone who could look at everything and like it in the same way. So God made human beings who could reflect on their own existence and appreciate beauty. And God made the human beings responsible for all the other living creatures, and the trees and flowers, and all the water and the solid ground.
So God made human beings, both men and women, to be like God in this way. And God put a blessing on the human beings, and wished that they would bear fruit and be many, and that they would take responsibility for the earth and everything on it.
God blew around and looked at everything one last time, and God liked it very, very much.
And God rested.
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