CARE FOR CREATION
Published on Feb 02, 2016
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“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
- Wendell Berry
Creation is a sign of God's love and power.
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Creation + Humanity = Interdependence
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Warning Signs
- Climate Change
- Vanishing species (land, water, air)
- Forest Destruction
- Ocean Acidification
- Drought/Famine
- War/Conflict over Natural Resources
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We are called to be *stewards*. What's that all about?
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What are the qualities of a good "steward"?
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Creation is *sacramental*. How can this be?
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"Dwelling in the presence of God, we begin to see ourselves as part of creation, as stewards within it, not separate from it."
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We need to see the Earth and all of it's goods and resources as expressions of God's Love and Mercy.
We need to see the world and its resources as belonging to all humanity. They belong to the "commons".
We need to think "long-term" rather than "short-term". What will you give your Children?
Managing the Earth's resources respectfully and wisely also helps to end poverty?
Why?
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The Created world takes us to a place for meeting God.
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“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
- Wendell Berry
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Our current crisis calls us to change the rules of the game. To change the way we look at and treat the world we live in. Not only for our survival, not only for the survival of our kin, but out of Love for our Creator!
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We need to develop a world with sustainability in mind.
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What might that world look like?
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