Fate had set a trio of hearts before me, and I greedily took them all.
And now the entire world must pay for my foolishness.
But He calls to me.
They hung Him on a cross at Calvary, stripped Him of his life just the way they stripped me of mine. But He calls to me, sings over me, commands I come alive. He is resurrecting, restoring all that I am, all that my people are.
Not entropy, nor death, nor a single wicked heart can prevail over what He proclaims.
The true King has spoken.
The true King is alive.
He bursts forth from victory.
And so will I.
A New Beginning
Candace
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was waste and void—and darkness was in the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said let there be light and there was light. God was pleased with the light and divided light from the darkness. God called the light, day, and the darkness, night. Then God divided firmament from the waters and called the expanse above the water heaven. Evening passed and morning came, marking the second day. Then God sprouted vegetation on dry ground, every kind of seed-bearing plant and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Evening passed and morning came, marking the third day. Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night.” He made a larger one to rule the day and a smaller one to govern the night. God saw that it was good and evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day. Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with every kind of sea creature, and the sky with every kind of bird—each producing after its own kind.” God saw that it was good, and evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day. Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on earth, and the small animals that scurry, along the ground.”
So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God He created them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and multiply. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened. Then God looked over everything He had made, and He saw that it was very good. And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
So the creation of the heavens and earth and everything in them was completed. On the seventh day God had finished His creation, so He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and He declared it holy, because it was the day He rested from all his work of creation. This is the account of the heavens and the earth as it will forever be recorded in the book of Genesis.
And preceding all of this, in the very beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And together the Word, God the Father, and the Spirit united the kingdom in the heavenlies and there was a feast as we pondered this new creation, what it could mean, what it could become—how beautiful it was, perfectly created with love by the master Himself.
There is a precipice in Ahava, past the crystal lake, just beyond the Falls of Virtue that affords a magnified view of the jewel called Earth. And all the created beings in the heavenlies—the angelic messengers, the seraphim, the cherubs, the Sectors, the Fems, the Caelestis, along with the beasts that rest at the throne—gathered as we gaze upon its beauty.
“Attention!” my voice chimes out over the expanse. “I, Your Grace, Candace, would like to announce that all magnificence was created by, and for, the Master,” I say to the created beings gathered nearby.