I awoke one night
from deepest sleep
with so profound a thought,
and with a gentle prod,
woke up my husband lightly,
and to him the question brought.
In the darkness and
the still of night,
the thought preyed on my mind;
I was searching for an answer
from the dawning of mankind.
For God,
omnipotent creator,
Father since before the Earth began,
in creating the world and all within
approached it as a man.
He moulded heaven
and the Earth,
land mass and salted sea,
then plants, tall trees, the moon and stars,
the sun, then you and me.
And the question
that formed in my mind
that night, as in my bed I lay, was this -
He being so omnipotent,
why did he take six days?
He could have done it
all at once
for He has that power, we know.
So why did he take six days
to create this world?
Does anybody know?