In the Beginning was the Verb

 Father, You created.

From nothing material but not from nothing.

From Your will, Your word, Your goodness.

Your character.

Bereshit bara Elohim, word for word:

"In the beginning, He created, God."

Formed, fashioned, brought to be

not plain

colorless

serviceable

neutral, 

but art, beauty elemental to You,

inextricable from You,

Your world Your, our, decor. 

 

Made in Your image, we create too.

Yet with tools we asah and with earth yatsar

from material and not from nothing.

Our humble efforts press toward beauty,

our wish to honor a God like ours.

Every stitch, pattern, word, object, 

every way of craft,

sing of, embody, prophesy

Your splendor,

even to those who sniff, "Trivia!"

Open their eyes to the fullness, 

the completeness,

the beauty

of the ways of our God.