Hey folks, what you're about to hear is an uninterrupted telling of the creation story we released previously as a 12-part series.

I hope listening this way gives you a chance to be swept up by the narrative momentum of Yahweh's work,

and to listen for through lines and maybe some Easter eggs you may have missed the first time around.

And remember, this is an exercise in imagination, not a detailed

chronology. All right, I hope you enjoy this time with your father in one of his favorite memories.

How do you tell the story of everything? The beginning of all we know, of all we've ever seen or touched or tasted.

This is a story of chaos ordered, of darkness lit, of joy shared, love multiplied. It's the oldest story there is,

and it's a story being made new every day, happening again and again thanks to a God who does

not stop creating.

I'm Justin Gerhardt.

Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories.

Thank you. They live. They live together, the three, as one.

Like three planes of existence in a single reality.

Like the three dimensions of a single form, like joy and love and peace, inextricable

aspects of a single fabulous moment.

This is existence before our existence.

Before tigers and icebergs and orchids,

before the stars and the moon,

there were the ancient things,

the first things.

Wisdom, goodness, language, partnership, happiness.

These things have been for a long time now flowing from the three Father, Son,

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