Pride came before the fall.

Nothing any of us has ever done goes unnoticed.

Before God created a thing,

He made a plan.

From the depth of His being He imagined us,

Each of us: strong, willful, and poised to make a difference.

He imagined limitless possibility, and great personal reward.

The soulful kind, that which mattered to Him.

He planned for beauty in the eye of the beholder.

The beauty only He would see, for it was He who beheld us before our creation.

He realized the necessity for forgiveness, and so in His unconditional love,

He envisioned compassion, understanding, and tolerance, and saw Himself as being that!

He saw struggle, and created strength and perseverance.

He saw injustice, and created Law.

He saw spiritual destitution, and created a willingness to work towards spiritual richness.

He saw inhumanity, and created accountability.

And in this all, He found us, imagined us, and loved us and said:

Let it be so, and it was!

His creation was a flowing, flowering, living, breathing, mesmerizing, tantalizing, work.

It was seen in the light of His eye, and always mindful that the vision of it,

Would blind us were we to see it in its entirety prior to a time of preparation.

And so, he planned for earthly life to quicken us.

Pride came before the fall,

His pride, the joy He experienced from His creation,

The tap, tap, tap of His chisel upon the granite of His greatest masterpiece,

The David of His existence.

He was the Renior, the Michelangelo, the Monet of the Heavens.

Brushstrokes, here and there, color, splashes of light and dark, hue, and sheen,

Texture, width, depth of perception, angle, swirl, and curve, .

Here, there, and everywhere … and once refined, vibrant, and delectable,

He said, it is finished, and it was.

Pride came before the fall,

God’s pride!

Michael Taylor©