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A Song about Creation

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I am a Calvinist who

(enough of a Calvinist

who)

Believes the world has

Fallen with the first

Sin we decided to take on

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The world should

Be different, though there

Are reminders everywhere

In nature, in the

Morning, in the soft way

That evening falls

Sometimes

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Maybe it’s in newborn

Life that we have

The promise of creation

To be constant if not perfect,

Wonders in asymmetry

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Science and religion

Taken over by

The awe that greets us

In the mornings of

Every hour, every day

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Hexagons and spirals,

Nature seems

To favor these

(bee cells and nautili,

for instance)

And nebulae sometimes

Look like one-celled wonders

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And for all the shapes

And sizes

In leaves and roots,

Mitochondria, and the

So-much larger flesh outside

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Above and under all we know,

There is amazement

In waking to creation

Remade in amazement

Until “Earth and all stars”

Be renewed perfectly

One day,

A moment

Signaling forever

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C L Couch

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“Earth and All Stars,” a hymn composed by David N. Johnson

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Photo by Gabi Scott on Unsplash

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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