The Question: What Came Before?

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Contractions came first. There was no room and we were pressed from all sides. There was no where left to go, but through the Darkness of the Unknown. We faced life or death.

A Power Greater than our Self was our only hope. When a mare dies before the foal is fully delivered, a human handler has a matter of minutes to perform the emergency extraction through a compression that expels fluid and clears the airway for the first breath.

The last contraction is a matter of life and death. We survived because someone was waiting to receive us. A Mother waiting to gather us into her arms was the Divine Provision for the beginning of Life outside the womb. We survived because someone was prepared to receive us. Continue reading →