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Boldly and poetically, this chapter sets out to describe the indescribable and
to imagine the unimaginable – God, the Creator of all things, who is beyond
all human parameters of thought and imagination. As some of the saints
have said, whatever we can say about God, is not God.

The danger is that sometimes we limit ourselves by creating God in our own
image. This chapter expresses great humility in acknowledging our human
limitations when describing God and settles for using the word Great. In
making all things great, God saw that they were good. The Master, seen
here as one of the Greats, in Christian terms, is Jesus of Nazareth, the
Word made flesh, one with the Father from the beginning, and through
whom all things were created.

The chapter ends with a wonderful symmetry of the flow of energy from
humans to the earth to the heavens and back to God, the source of all life.

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a Genesis 1:1-31; Colossians 1:15-20; Exodus 3:13-14; Psalm 139:7-10;
d Romans 1:18-21.