Keywords
Scripture, beginnings
Document Type
Essay
Description
I have sat down an incalculable number of times, just as I am doing right now, to write the origin story of my eating disorder—if such a thing can exist. Each time that I am faced with this pending opportunity, I either pen out words that bear a cliché façade, or that feel painfully inauthentic or immature. Or I stare blankly at the page, unable to conjure up words that feel honest and are birthed from my own mental mouth. You see, I think the problem is that I don’t know where the beginning actually is. In the same sense that my religious congregation sings, “Do you think that you could ever. . . find out the generation where Gods began to be? Or see the grand beginning, where space did not extend?” I’m not sure this beginning even exists.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Mauri Pollard
(2021)
"Genesis,"
Inscape: Vol. 41:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol41/iss2/6