5. Chaos!

Each of the multicolored dots in this photograph is a black hole. The panorama was created using images taken by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and several ground-based telescopes. The scale image of the moon should give you an idea of how large a portion of the sky was imaged.

Each one of black holes (1000 in total) in the picture is really the super massive black hole that lies at the creative heart of another galaxy.

Prologue
In the beginning God stands on an empty stage (“shapeless chaotic mass”) and delivers the Genesis prologue, commencing with an exclamatory YES! to creation. And the great eternal romance begins.

Since Time Began
Creation is always born out of chaos. Evil enters into the equation relapsing into chaos followed by a yearning for re-creation…

Evil, chaos, Genesis…
Evil, chaos, Genesis…
Evil, chaos…

And thus it has been since time began: Serpent ~ Adam; Babel ~ Noah; Sodom ~ Abraham and 42 generations on (Matt. 1:17), God is looking at an empty stage again (shapeless, chaotic mass), totally devoid of a Creative presence (Black hole).

“He was in the world, the world was there through him, and yet the world didn’t even notice” (John 1:9-10).

Devoid of its Soul!
A baby grand piano has always been on my wife’s “wish” list. Early on in our ministry, that “wish” was mysteriously granted in the form of a gift to her. She was deliriously ecstatic, rearranging the furniture in preparation for its delivery.

On that eventful day, the movers gingerly placed it in the space arranged as we all gathered around feasting our eyes upon this regal, sparkling white musical instrument. We stood transfixed as she sat down on the bench, lifted the keyboard cover and began to play. Shockingly, as she pressed down on the keys there was no sound. Her fingers danced across the black and white ivories, not one of them so much as emitting a note. We stared at each other dumbfounded.

Upon lifting the lid and peaking inside, NOTHING! Void, shapeless, chaotic! After some further investigative work we found that the piano had been made for a movie prop, an illusion, a husk, devoid of its soul, the very thing that gives it life. And all of this unbeknown to the donor, who upon receiving it, passed it on to us with nary a testing tap on the keys.

YES!
Alas, chaos (a state of utter confusion) ensued, crying out for one of those “Something New” Genesis moments. In the garage, we frantically searched for and found our dust-laden portable CD player, popped in a “The Best of Liberace” CD, and then strategically placed it deep within the piano cavity.

Doris sat down at the keyboard. LET THERE BE! I touched the “on” button as she simultaneously touched the ivories and, miracle of miracles, her playing equaled the sound and touch of the master, Liberace. YES!

The Genesis Thinker understands that chaos equals opportunity, and then moves instinctively to creatively fill the void (black hole).

Cyberspace Link
For me and many others whether they will admit it or not, Beethoven’s compositions are old, outdated and boring, similar to church organs, pews and other ancient black holes. Victor Borge, grasping this reality, finds opportunity in Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (things as they were) by creatively transforming the old masterpiece into “something new” and original (things as they will be): Victor Borge Link