Analect 08

God, who like nature abhors a vacuum, one day slid Her hands under her footstool, scooped the dust bunnies of the earth into her mitts and formed a likeness of Herself. She breathed life into it and it became full of vim and vigor and was cool and self-destructive.

Commentary:

This dust-to-dust thing is just a metaphor. This is a poet using poetic license. There’s a lot of that in the bible …and in the language in general for that matter.  Whatever your metaphor, there’s more than enough going on around us to work on and work out.

“Where do you come from? Where do you go?
Sorry that’s nothin’ you would need to know.”
–Bob Dylan, Love & Theft, Summer days