Life as Gift

In creation we move from non-being to life. In redemption we move from death to life. Or rather, in creation and redemption we are brought from non-being and death to life. How true and manifest this is in creation. It is equally so in redemption. We cannot make ourselves from nothing. We cannot raise ourselves from death. From beginning to end and all between, we have life from God as good and gracious gift, tendered in love.