The Third Day
"I like your painting," someone once said to me. "But were you
thinking of what God may have done on the third day?" they asked. I
was both inspired and dismayed by her question since it immediately
brought to light the real reasoning behind my title. "The Third
Day" in fact had little to do with God's immaculate plan. Rather, I
was drawn to something simplistic and technical -- specifically how
the moon's phase always appears on "its third day." The spiritual
question intrigued me though and I now admit a bit of regret for
keying in on something so basic as how the moon will look in the sky
early in the month. I mention this person's curiosity however
because it does spark the imagination. We can look into this night
scene and ask ourselves "What DID happen on the third day?" I read
the first part of Genesis after asking this question. And as it
turned out, God did a lot of things. He made the oceans and the
land masses. He also "brought forth" seed-bearing plants and filled
the earth with lot of vegetation under the heavens. It was not
until three days following this that God made man. Day and night
had not even come into existance. Imagine how desolate yet so rich
the world must have been then. Green life must have seemed so
magnificent against the dark rock jutting up from the oceans. I
wonder if God had made wind then as well.
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