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...

search MOTHER EARTH and UNIVERSAL REALITY
       http://connectwithlucyusingphotos.blogspot.com

watch a short video on CREATION at   https://youtu.be/xJqGGNUhwLQ 








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DESERT BEAUTY

Image
A CACTUS IN BLOOM SPEAKS OF PRAISE A WHOLE DESERT SPEAKS OF STILLNESS The desert is like a monastery where one meets Presence. Sometimes life's events feel desert-like; yet we are not alone, in the midst of our solitude, we find Presence, Stillness... The desert is a place of transformation and freedom. It can mean a place to die... The desert is a mystical place where creation and God are ONE. God is an artist...."How Great Thou Art"...(hymn) "The beauty of the world is Christ's smile for us coming through matter."  Simone Weil Desert beauty invites stillness; it connects us with our true Self, our Divine Self. And that is beauty!! ( photos on this post were sent by a friend from Tucson, Az ) Search NATURE BEAUTY or INDEX http:// connectwithlucyusingphotos. blogspot.com   
Read more

SURRENDER...LET GO...ACCEPT

Image
SURRENDER is  not  giving up as when an army submits to the other side. Surrender means letting our Higher Self  (called the Universal Force/Flow by Singer) take control of our life.  For that to happen, we have to let go the voice of ego ( voice of resistance) chattering in our mind wanting to control events. For years I had been willing to let go of my personal preferences and focus on doing the absolute best I could with what life presented to me...a life built for me, not by me. Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. I was learning to sit quietly in the midst of the howling winds and wait and to see what constructive action was being ask of me.    Michael A. Singer from his book THE SURRENDER EXPERIMENT, 2015,  (post inspired by that book) If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.    Buddha Self conquest is really self-surrender.    Thomas Merton Can anyone of you by worrying add a single hour to the span of your life?   Lk 12:2
Read more

PARADOX

Image
PARADOX    According to the dictionary, a paradox  is a statement appearing contradictory, yet true. Life is a paradox because many events seeming disastrous, bring us meaning and joy. New life means death to behavior destroying us. We need both solitude and community to survive. Breathing to be whole requires both inhaling and exhaling...Negative and positive events are part of life and therefore requires no judging.  The wisdom is in resisting to label them bad or good but simply in accepting the event as it is. Darkness often brings light. Our struggles, crosses, suffering, pain,  can be transforming. (see yin/yang.... two opposite but complementary, bringing balance to life) If we can live with the tension of opposites, we might find freedom and hope because in the midst of tension, Someone is there taking care of us... In our struggle, we eventually see the blessing, the Grace moment, the God moment. Like Jonas, I find myself traveling toward my destiny in the belly of paradox
Read more