It’s amazing to me to think of the creation. I understand the Genesis account as more of a literary account than 100% literal, but I would still like to have been there for the literal part of it. It’s one thing to say that God “brooded over the vapors” or that He separated the waters, it’s another to actually witness the very first dawn or see the water evaporate en masse to form the atmosphere. I absolutely do not believe in the LDS doctrine that you can evolve to be a god of your own world, but I do hope that God allows me to go back in space-time to witness when he did it.

The next closest thing is to create a world of my own. I believe that God put in us an urge to create something (art, music, computers, houses, sandcastles, etc.) so I figured why not create a different world? So far, it has helped me to understand in a small way some of the things God had to do to make everything work.

to be continued …