Show Don't Tell: Genesis 1:9-13

Instead of saying "God created dry land and plants," let them watch it emerge. The waters below begin to move—not randomly but with purpose, gathering, pulling back like a tide that never returns. And rising from beneath: land. Dark, wet, glistening earth seeing sky for the first time. Smell it—that rich, mineral scent of soil that has never known sun. But God isn't finished. He speaks again, and the bare ground shivers. Watch green unfurl from nothing: first tiny shoots, then stems thickening, leaves spreading, roots driving deep. Grasses carpet the hills. Trees stretch upward, bark roughening as they grow, branches reaching like arms in worship. Fruit swells on limbs—seeds locked inside, each one carrying the blueprint for forests yet to come.