When I started, several weeks back, to write about creation, I was pondering the darkness of the abyss before God spoke His first word of creation and sent Light to our shrouded world. I was questioning just how long the darkness lasted, as the Spirit brooded our egg of an earth. Walking through Holy Week, especially the Maundy Thursday service, I was struck by Jesus' "descent into darkness" as we celebrated the Service of Shadows. As Jesus hung on the cross, the world once more plunged into literal and figurative darkness such as had never been seen since creation and will not be again while the earth endures. The Light was dying, and He cried out to His Father, receiving no answer. He was left to die in darkness, to be laid behind a stone in silence, while the whole earth waited for the Word of the Lord. Had He been stilled, once and for all, trampled under our callous feet and hardened hearts?
Then, finally, three days later, the Word burst forth, in glorious light, light enough to shine to the ends of the earth and beyond the end of time as we know it. Hallelujah!!
So, perhaps, like the great darkness of Jesus death, the first darkness before creation lasted 3 days before the dawn of day one and the first coming of the Light.
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