CREATION


CREATION     Light and love sustain all of Creation. Experts in the field say that creation evolved over 13 billion years. Creation is still happening now and expanding. Scripture confirms that in Rom 8:22, For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs until now.
Science tells us that we have now hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with  billions of stars! HOW GREAT THOU ART...!  as the hymn goes.
What expands, according to Teilhard de Chardin  (paleontologist) must eventually converge and we are included in it.  (Rohr , DVD on Cosmology, 2010 )
We are all children of the Light.

The Creator wants species to self create.  Why can't we get that?...
Ordinary matter is the hiding place for Spirit.   R. Rohr

The most telling and profound way to describing evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.   T. de Chardin

I am in love with life on earth, the hundred budding eyes seeking light...I'm in love with the cosmic heaven, haunting glory, racing explosions...Maybe the health and vibrancy of the Universe depends on love...Maybe creation is ongoing...requiring what only love can provide...We can love the order of the world...Each of us can give the gift of love as we are able...I want to participate in the creation in that way now... Pattiann Rogers  ( excerpts from her essay pp 122-123 from the book A SENSE OF WONDER edited by Brian Doyle, 2016 )

If you love poetry, read her book, SONG OF THE WORLD BECOMING, 2001.( Pattiann is a heartfelt ecologist)

The created world itself is an epiphany of divine wisdom and love.   Thomas Merton.

Any mistake we make about creation, will also be a mistake about God.  Aquinas

Wherever you turn, there is the face of God...
Everything in the universe hymns his praise...    Qur'an

All powerful God,  teach us to discover  the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light.   Pope Francis    (from LAUDATO SI')

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.   G. M. Hopkins

For a hymn of praise from Creation, pray Psalm 148.

So often we say that God dwells in us, but it is better to say that we dwell in God, that he enables us to dwell in his light and love.  Pope Francis

Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The God of Love delights in the creation. And God saw that it was good.   Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 17, 21, 25 and  God saw that it was very good.   Gen 1:31

How do I know the shape of the father in all things?
Through these things of the created world!   Lao-Tzu

Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother?... Black Elk  


Praise the Lord in all of creation...Ps 148

PRAISE
(pic sent by a friend)


buds come and bloom

bees pollinate

and give us honey


species reproduce


every year berries reappear

...a hiding place for Spirit...

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