Genesis - Chapter 01 - Line 00001

Contemplative Summary

“In a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

In this first movement of Scripture, all things converge into a single gesture of origin. The text does not anchor itself to a moment in time but opens an unfolding space where potential turns toward expression. The Hebrew bereshit (“in a beginning”) holds no definite article — it points not to the start of history but to the beginning that happens wherever creation stirs. Bara, the word for “create,” appears only with the Divine, marking an act of pure initiation. Elohim stands both singular and plural, a unity resonating through multiplicity.

Together, these words reveal creation as a relationship — the unseen calling forth the seen, the infinite taking form within the finite. “The heavens and the earth” describe the whole continuum of existence, from the intangible to the tangible, the wave to the particle. This line is less a statement about the past than an ever-present rhythm: awareness awakening into structure, order emerging from possibility.

To linger here is to remember that every moment can be a beginning; that the same creative pulse still breathes through all that exists.