Where
Are You?
Selections
from In the Beginning/B’re-sheet
Genesis 1.1-3.21
In-the-beginning
creates El (God and Goddess)
The heavens and the earth
Let there be light and separate it
from darkness
All living creatures be fertile and
increase
Let’s make humanity in Eloheem’s (in the Mother’s) image
Creating male and female with plants
for food
This is the story of heaven and
earth:
The seventh day, we declare it holy
YHVH
(God) forms humans from dust of the earth (adamah)
Breathing into our nostrils the
breath of life
We are living beings!
We awaken
in the palace of existence
A garden is planted in Eden in the east
With a tree of life in the middle
Also knowledge of right and wrong (duality)
A river from Eden
waters the garden,
A land of gold and lapis lazuli
We’re free to eat from every tree in the garden
If we eat the fruit of duality, we get
both life and death
All alone? Let’s make a helpmate, birds and animals too
A deep sleep, now fashion woman, now fashion man
Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh
Naked and unself-conscious, two become one flesh (Yes!)
For clothing God has made us garments of skin (of light)
The entire universe is our home
God is calling to us now, saying “Where are you?”
You have only limited time here.
What are you doing with your life?
