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So this came to me while I was in the shower awhile back, refining itself every few days until I decided I had to write it down or I'd lose it forever.

Be warned, it's three and a half pages and about 2200 words long.

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In the beginning there was, for lack of better terminology, naught but God and the Void. God was infinite, yet quantifiable, for outside God existed the Void. Thus existed "Everything" and "Nothing" in perfect balance and harmony. Each aware of the other but content in their own, for all was stable. Thus existed balance and harmony for time unknowable... Until there came a change.

God considered, for a moment, whether or not the universe could or would change. In this moment God created Light for the sake of experiment to see if things could change and change they did. The Light burst forth, exploding into the universe and expanded God's domain beyond God. Illuminating that which had previously been Void. The Void retreated in the face of Light, for in its presence the Void resolved from being Nothing, for once it was illuminated God could directly observe it and once observed 'Nothing' became 'Something' and ceased to be 'Nothing. God saw all that was illuminated by the light and decided that change was good.

As the Light of God expanded through the universe, it began to fade. Before the Light, God had been Everything, but now that he had created Light a segment of the Universe inside the Void had begun to expand. At the edges of the Light it slowed, started to recede. The Void felt this and flowed back into the space from which the Light had been, vanquishing what had been illuminated and rendering it once again into Nothing. This God had not predicted. God had thought the Light, like God, would be infinite within the space between the void. This angered and filled God with a passion for his newly expanded domain and the potential things which could be contained within it. And so God created Fire, to burn and bring forth more Light to further the expansion of his infinite yet still quantifiable part of the universe. The Fire burned and spread the light. Born from the heat of God's passion Fire became the agent of change.

But, the Fire stayed wherever God placed it. This God was content with as he moved around his space, placing more and more Fire to illuminate greater and greater spaces. Ever expanding the universe now was as the Void stretched itself out beyond the Light to remain intact and whole in its nothingness. God danced among the flames of Fire and at a whim created a Wind to move them about. God saw the Wind move the Fire and created more of both, the Wind causing the Fire to dance about space. God saw that as the Fire moved it spread the Light even further and this was good. This changed the universe and God had begun to very much enjoy change.

Time unknowable again passed as God created Fire and Wind in greater and greater quantities, expanding space over time. God began to grow bored, as though Wind and Fire danced before him and space was ever-expanding, there was no real change. And so God took hold of a Fire and compressed it. God constricted it. For the sake of experiment and in the name of change God squeezed the Fire until the light ceased to come forth, until it cooled and created a hard shell. Thus God created Earth. And God watched as the Light and the Fire danced across the surface of Earth and decided that this was change enough, and that change was good. God placed this first piece of Earth at the precise center of the universe, a place that was once all of everything a place that was once all of God. God left it alone, pure, the first and oldest Earth in all creation. And God set about the rest of creation, taking hold of Fire and squeezing it and creating more Earth. This Earth God set to dance in the Wind among the Fire. A relationship began to form, as balance and harmony forced themselves upon the elements God had created. The Earth would dance around the Fire at the will of the Wind, sometimes smashing together. Sometimes becoming larger, sometimes breaking apart. This cycle of change became the norm and God decided it was good, for change was good.

It was in then that the Void began to feel more of itself. For as God had created Earth within his space, in the space behind the Earth, when the Earth stood between Fire and space, Light could not penetrate. Thus was created the Shadow, and the Shadow was an agent of the void within God's realm. The Void attempted to expand the shadow but upon the first touch of light each shadow was banished. And so the Void learned to keep the shadows in the shade of the Earth. The Shadow lacked the power to move Earth to its whim, and could not bear the light of the Fire beyond it and so thus was the way the universe achieved balance by creating pockets of Void inside God's Creation.

Time unknowable passed again as God was content in creating Earth and scattering it about space, watching the Earth and the Fire move about in the Wind. God began to discern a pattern of things, and if there was a pattern it meant things were not changing. Having already decided infinitely ago that Change was good, God knew that something else must be created. Something else must dance with the Earth the Wind and the Fire. As God had with the Fire to create the Earth, God took hold of the wind. Got felt it ever moving but pressed and squeezed it. God made a denser wind, a semi-solid wind. Only in a space with very little Fire could God press it solid, but this was not Earth it was different. It reflected and refracted Light, rather than stopping it outright. God brought this creation to dance among the Earth and Fire but some of it did not stay solid. God watched as his newest creation surged forth in all its forms and danced among the Fire and the Earth, saw as it fell against the Earth and changed the face of whatever Earth it touched. When it touched Fire, a small part of that fire would disappear forever but this new creation remained in a new form that was carried by the Wind throughout ceation. Thus God created Water, and saw it was an agent of change. And change was good.

Time unknowable passed, and the Shadow discovered that both Water and Earth could shield it from the blinding light of Fire. Over time it learned that while it could not move the Earth, it could move the water. Through the Shadow the Void imparted its influence upon Water, moving it ever so slightly into the Wind. Through the Shadow the Void saw that as Water touched Fire, Fire was destroyed. Through the Shadow the Void observed Water carving into the Earth, changing its shape and scattering its pieces. Thus was born Destruction, and thus a check for Creation had restored the Balance of the universe. What God created, the Void would destroy.

God had created Light. God created Fire to burn and spread the Light. God had created Wind to spread the Fire that spread the Light. God had created the Earth and the Water to decorate his space. This space that was ever expanding, pockets of Void began to grow in the Shadow wherever Water or Earth blocked the Light from the Fire. These pockets moved as with everything else but were not hte same as God's Creation. God sensed that parts of Creation were being Destroyed. Creation had expanded infinitely, yet still quantifiably, beyond what God had been in the Beginning. God sought to spread throughout all of Creation, but could not expand as the Universe had. Thus God looked inward, and God reflected that while space had expanded beyond the borders once called Everything, that Everything now encompassed all God had created and the space between the borders of the Void and Nothing. God took a piece of that self, that identity within that recognized the universe. God took that piece and warmed it at the Fire before releasing it into the Wind. That small piece of God went at the whimsy of the Wind until it fell upon the Earth. Upon the Earth, among the Water, dancing among the Fire at the will of the Wind did that piece of God begin to expand and change and multiply. And Thus, God created Life. God created all Life from a piece of God, and thus all life was God's image. God saw this, and saw that Life would forever grow and change as he willed all things to change. And change was good.

God moved about Space, spreading pieces everywhere. These piece of God grew into Life and Life flourished, but not alone. Most Life was too small to sustain itself without the Earth and Water close by to maintain Balance. And so Live diversified, filling the Earth and the Water with its own forms and creations. God felt then every spark of Life, and this was change. And change was good. Through the Shadow the Void observed this. The Void had been the balance against God in the beginning. It ran way from the Light staying in the darkness. It lived now within Creation by means of the Shadow and it was able to Destroy things God had Created. Balance and Harmony had become dependant upon this cycle of Creaion and Destrution, Harmony had been achieved amidst the constant change. And so when the Shadow fell upon Life for the first time, the Void snuffed it out. Thus was created Death as a counter to Life - that the Void would seek to extinguish Life as Life burned with the Fire but did not cast its own light and was thus vulnerable. Again Balance had been restored, as there was now Death to check against Life.

Thus time unknowable passed again. God continued to move through the infinitely expanding universe, creating new Fire and Wind and Earth and Water and scattering Life about. And thus the Void persisted behind, in the Shadow of all Creation. Snuffing out Life and Destroying wherever it could to restore the Balance. Thus God became the Cosmos, and the Void became Chaos to the Cosmos. All was changing and turmoil raged throughout the univers as conflict became the basis of Balance and Harmony. In this conflict, Life grew and spread and became more and more varied as it lived upon the Earth and within the Water and moved at the whimsy of the Wind among the Fire. As Life was a part of God, Life existed in Light but could not creat its own, and thus was dependant upon the Light spread by the Fire. And so Life willed the Wind to move the Earth and the Water it had come to call home to further dance among the Fire. This, too, created a pattern. But this was a pattern of change and God had long ago decreed that Change was good. And so it was that God tasked Life with Creation, having spread infinitely among space God could no longer be the sole force of creation against the destruction wrought by the Void.

And so Life began to create on its own, began to change on its own. And there was an order of things within the pattern of change, inflicted upon by the chaos of destruction. Each piece fit into the puzzle as the grand universe as a whole sought Balance and Harmony in all things. There was God and the Void. There was Light and Dark. There was the passion of Fire and the calm flow of Water. The solidity of Earth against the ethereal Wind. There was Life and there was Death. There was Creation. There was Destruction. And now, in the grander scheme of things in the great and infinite universe as a whole, were the basics of Order and Chaos. And things continued to change, and shall continue to change, for the balance and harmony of the universe had become dependant upon the cycle of things. All life was created from pieces of God in the image of God, all Death was the Void reclaiming what was once its own. The Void lured Life into Death and into the Void with a false Light, and God's last act of change was to create a truer Light which burned in the eye of the Void. Life which returned to this Light after Death would be a part of Creation again, given new form. Thus God's final order to all of Creation was that Life was there to continue the cycle of change, and that Life was tasked with observing and naming all the myriad Creations which had begun to fill the otherwise empty space between the void. And thus the universe changed time and time again. And change was indeed good.