DAILY CONTEMPLATION

March 15, 2025 ~ Paremhotep 6, 1741

God’s creative energy went into labor and gave birth to those two brothers:
the night which is darkness and the day which is full of light.
Both are beautiful though they are not at all similar to each other;
but this is clear: whatever the Lord made is beautiful…
Night was the firstborn and took its place before the day,
then light came, drove it off, entered and arose to become the firstborn.
To Isaac Rebecca gave birth to Esau and Jacob
who, like day and night, did not resemble one another.
Esau, the firstborn, was like the night,
then Jacob came forth and, like the day, grabbed his foot.
St. Jacob of Sarug, On the Fashioning of Creation