“Let there be light.”
Before anything else, there was darkness. Not the comfortable darkness of a moonless night, not the peaceful dark of closed eyes before sleep. This was the darkness of absolute nothing—formless, void, the deep chaos that existed before existence had definition. Then God spoke. “Let there be light.” Three words in English. Four in Hebrew: Yehi […]
Peter Walks on Water
The water is black. Not the blue of tourist postcards, but the churning black of Galilean fury at three in the morning. Lightning splits the sky, and for one instant, everything is visible—the boat tossing like driftwood, the disciples clinging to oars that do nothing, and the impossible: a figure walking toward them on the […]
The Shattered Tablets: Moses’ Descent from Mount Sinai
The mountain trembles. Thunder rolls across the peaks like the voice of a thousand armies. Lightning splits the sky, and fire crowns Sinai’s summit. And there, ascending through smoke and storm, walks one man — barefoot, staff in hand, called by name into the presence of the Almighty. Moses had climbed this mountain before. Forty […]