“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” Genesis 1:3

I am called to Ocean often to remember how the Spirit of God laid atop its big blue-black body before He spoke to the Darkness, commanded it to divide, then declared the Day. “To illuminate,” my lover tells me, “is Holy work, and man prospers in its fruits.”

I sit inside the Ocean’s big belly and lick the salt from my lips, and wonder what is considered God’s best work, and where I can pick the best fruits to be the best wife, and mother, and daughter. I tell the waters I must leave this place and never come back until I learn what God was thinking when He made me.

Faith responds, “Just go towards the light, girl. There’s a big mirror on the wall.” “Oh,” I whisper to God, smiling because I am one of the good things He made in the beginning, “Let there be me.”

©April Tia Glasgow