Shoot the Moon: Ficlet

[misskoum]

Creation, bright and blooming. She watches the heavens take shape, the universe ignite, the Earth form, running her porcelain fingers through spacetime, an embodiment of light taking wing at her shoulders. She breathes deep though it isn't necessary. She stands alone, the fringe of her imagination casting a balcony that does not yet exist, complete

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[spaceanjl]

*dies from the awesome*

This was seriously good. '...He shot the moon just for her. She will cherish it always'

I love this balance, that they are not quite enemies, but two halves of what must be, opposing the void.

[misskoum]

*revives you*

Thank you! You have no idea how happy you've made me. =)

I remember having a discussion in Old Testament about what was there before God started creating. Nothing and Chaos and so on and so forth. Very interesting stuff. I won't pretend I know squat about good and evil and God and Satan, though. It's like trying to wrap your had around a basketball.

[spaceanjl]

I'm dredging through my memories for the stuff I did back when we studied the Crusades, including the later inter-European ones. Heresies various, about balance and opposition, and the nature of evil as opposed to absence, how some believed that it was necessary in order for good to exist.

Though I like the 'yin/yang' symbol best, the matching duality with a dash of the other within, just to balance it.

[misskoum]

Me, too! You need evil to fully understand and appreciate good. You need good in order to perceive evil. Yin/Yang is perfect.

[mrssnape13]

SO MUCH WIN. I'm reading Paradise Lost now at school, and we've been examining God v. Satan, and how they can't be equal but opposite forces and how one will eventually have to come out the victor, but I like your version better! ;) Also, it's not 12 books long. XD This was short but beautiful. :)

[misskoum]

Yeah. I've given up trying to understand who/what God and Satan are...is...thing. A. W. Tozer said it best: "[God] is darkness to the intellect, but sunshine to the heart." =) So I romanticized good and evil.

[mrssnape13]

Great way to think! :)

[misskoum]

I forgot to say: THANK YOU!

[dianelyn]

Oh, this gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes. Not a lot of fics do that. Needless to say...I absolutely adore it.:D

[misskoum]

Thank you! I'm so honored. I don't think I've ever brought tears to anybody's eyes before. =)

[evelynvaughn01]

And again I default to... Wow.I love her goodness radiating, creating things of beauty and joy, and his darkness in contrast--not an evil, not a villain, just... destruction. And because he knows it cannot win out against creation (I love how the Earth immediately starts to reform!), he can weild it in his own kind of creation by making the moon... or rather, through his destruction, shaping the moon out of what she's already created. Considering that the moon is a point of significant light in the dark? The balance within balance within balance is amazing. Thank you for painting and writing and posting!

[evelynvaughn01]

OMGs OMGs OMGs -- I just got it got it. Creation = good & beautiful. Desctruction = not always likeable, but not evil either... it's more "adversarial" than evil. The two must coexist. Creation will win.

If you meant to tell me all this through the painting, you are a freaking genius (and a little psychic). If you didn't realize how comforting/inspiring I would find this message, then your subconscious is the freaking genius. Image and fiction are so much more powerful a medium than expository words, sometimes. Yet again? Thanks!

[misskoum]

That is amazing! This WAS about coexistence and 'the gray' in the world. Not everything is black and white and you can't have the good without the bad 'cause in order to understand the good, you have to experience the bad. Beauty comes from destruction. Like the vibrating strings of a harp match the vibrating string of a bow and arrow. But end the end, it all goes back to the good. *dies from the awesome*

I had no idea you needed to hear/see any of this, but I guess everything happens for a reason. Maybe that's why I slaved and sweated for two straight nights, staying up WAY past my bedtime? =)

[evelynvaughn01]

Oh, I did need it--dental emergency, vet emergency, last-minute tax issues, headaches, money issues... what a week! A tiny kindness can make such a difference--and a huge kindness like this, too! Thank you for sensing that :-)

[misskoum]

I'm just happy to help. Anytime! *hugs*