Land and Life: Genesis 1:9-13

God spoke to the waters below the sky: "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear."

And it was so.

Picture the waters rushing, draining, gathering into basins and channels, revealing what had been hidden beneath—rock and soil and sand, the bones of a planet emerging from the deep. Mountains rose. Valleys sank. Coastlines drew themselves where water met land for the first time.

God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.