Intro

Beginnings can be wonderful things.

Beginning of my marriage

Remember my nervousness
Remember the conversation I had with my uncle
Remember the way the pastor has to cut the ring off the pillow

Ben and Lillian came into the world.

I remember the specialness
I remember the feeling of Wonder
I remember the crying

Some beginnings we remember, some we do not.

We went there or we were too young

This whole ball of way, life, the universe, everything, it has a beginning.

God

There are 700 quintillion planets.

200, billion trillion stars.

At least 2 trillion galaxies.

Two things become immediate clear when you’re talking about those kinds of numbers.

Good is literally awe-some
We are minuscule

Or we would be, if it weren’t for this.

Genesis 2:5-7 – “5 When no (D)bush of the field was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man (E)to work the ground, 6 and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of (F)dust from the ground and (G)breathed into his (H)nostrils the breath of life, and (I)the man became a living creature.”

Intimate, loving creation
Hands on

The way Good will always be

Psalm 139:13-16 – “13 For you (P)formed my inward parts;
you )knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
(R)Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
15 (S)My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in (T)the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your (U)book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.”