What Is Creation About?

• What is creation about?
  • Why are we here?
  • Questions, Questions, more Questions.
• The answer is:  The Children.
  • Yes, the children.
  • It is a seed, beginning of a flower.
  • It is the kitten, learning to walk and suckle.
• Yes, the children.  It is the children.
  • I see them growing and wonder about tomorrow.
  • I see the pain from mistakes of leaving home
    • And remember mine.
  • I see the love and want to give them all I have.
• Yes, all the children.
  • I see their pain and I want to hold them close,
  • But I know they must learn.
• I see their choices and I feel pride
  • When they are doing their very best.
• We are here to share in God’s creation,
  • And assist in the process of creating,
  • Tomorrow and tomorrow through the
    • Children of our time.
• Whether the child is a kitten,
  • A new sprout breaking through
  • The earth for the first time or
  • Our child born in our likeness.
• The answer is:  The children.
  • The beginnings of their tomorrows.
    • The endings to our tomorrows.
    • Beginnings of caring for their children.

Originally written:   May 11, 1996

• I, like so many others,  have asked and pondered this question.  I came up with an interesting answer that surprised me once I had written it down in my journal.  Even now, after 14 years, I find truth in the words. They strike a chord of basic truth, one of the “Ahhh Haa’s” I have been searching for.