היום שלשה עשר יום, שהם שבוע אחד וששה ימים, לעומר
Day thirteen, one week and six days of the Omer.

The Hebrew word גלם, golem, is a hapax legomenon of the Tanakh (Old Testament). It appears once only, in Psalm 139:16. It is translated as "a mass not yet formed", "an embryo", or "a fetus". In later years the word became the name of a magical creature in Jewish folklore.

"Your eyes saw my unshaped form, and in your book all were recorded; though they will be fashioned through many days, to Him they are one." Psalm 139:16

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I'm going to type out some of my thoughts now. I don't expect them to be very eloquent, but here they are nonetheless.

I know something is true. I know life isn't worth living unless there exists a loving, infinite God.
The facts of nature, of earth, are myriad. Two different people can look at the environment that they both live in and come to drastically different conclusions about it's origins, each thinking the other misguided, deceived, and naive. I don't understand that.
Of course I want to think critically and be open minded. But I don't want to become chronically doubtful. I must believe in something. All the facts of the earth don't seem to exclude the creation of everything by some incomprehensible eternal Creator. I think the facts are in favour of a Creator. There's got to be something keeping us alive. A breath of life in the nostrils. Something we can't see and which constantly evades us, but oftimes we catch a glimpse of from the corner of our eye.

The Bible is amazingly consistent and historically accurate, despite the doubts of it's dependability expressed by textual critics. It's easy enough to look at the wild details in it's pages that seem to point in all directions and to mock it's apparent inconsistencies, but despite all that it is a unified whole, each verse having much more in common with all the others than not. The Bible portrays a God that is jealous and loving, wrathful and gentle, just and merciful. Infinite, yet corporeal. His identity is too big for us. One thing that doesn't change throughout the Bible is His love for Abraham and his descendants, the people of Israel. To this day Israel is a sign to the world that God is faithful.


"'Facts,' murmured Basil, like one mentioning some strange, far-off animals, 'how facts obscure the truth. I may be silly - in fact, I'm off my head - but I never could believe in that man - what's his name, in those capital stories? - Sherlock Holmes. Every detail points to something, certainly; but generally to the wrong thing. Facts point in all directions, it seems to me, like the thousands of twigs on a tree. It's only the life of the tree that has unity and goes up - only the green blood that springs, like a fountain, at the stars.'"
-GK Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown