Counted with the Stars

Yahweh is the creator of all that there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our hearts will stop beating, our eyes will close, the mountains may someday crumble, the trees will wither away, but Yahweh will always be.

believe that Yahweh did not just speak creation into existence. I believe he sang it into existence. Sometimes when I am alone, playing the lyre and singing, I feel as though he is singing with me. I am working together with the One who made the stars to create something new.” “That

Yahweh is the creator of all there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our hearts stop beating, our eyes will close, the mountains may someday crumble, the trees will wither away, but Yahweh will always be.

I believe that Yahweh did not just speak creation into existence. I believe he sang it into existence.

Somehow it seemed as though the journey through the sea had washed my heart of bitterness toward her and filled the empty places with a soothing tranquility.

Pharaoh is not the highest god, and Moses will prove it to him.

I don’t know the mind of Elohim. I wish I did.” She sighed. “But I know there is a reason for everything he does, and even if my human mind can’t wrap itself around his plan, I will follow. All I know is what my father told me from the time I was a tiny girl. Elohim will rescue us, and as we suffer under the hand of Pharaoh, he is building us, preparing us for something.” “For what?” “For something we cannot even imagine.

I think Yahweh is creating something new from our broken pieces. Perhaps he is writing a new song.

All my life, I had been told that animals must be sacrificed to appease the gods, to please them and coerce them to answer our prayers. But this god called Elohim, or Yahweh as I now knew him, asked for sacrifice not to please himself or to be appeased, but as a gift to his people, to cover their sins.

I do not know how to follow Yahweh," I whispered. He faced me, the light above the mountain reflecting in his eyes. "Neither do I, my love. We will learn together.