"The
heavens proclaim the glory of God.
The skies display his craftsmanship.
Day after day they continue to speak;
night after night they make him known.
They speak without a sound or word;
their voice is never heard.
Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
and their words to all the world."
(Psalm 19:1-4 NLT)
In
the beginning God spoke all things into being -- and for the rest of time all
things are speaking of God. This is a sacramental vision of the world: God
comes to us in and through the very stuff of the earth.
“Let
your mind roam through the whole creation,” the influential fourth-century
theologian Augustine urged; “everywhere the created world will cry out to you:
‘God made me.’… Go round the heavens again and back to the earth, leave out
nothing; on all sides everything cries out to you of its Author; nay the very
forms of created things are as it were the voices with which they praise their
Creator.”
Caring
for creation sharpens our sacramental sensing: the more we live out this
practice in our daily lives, the more we see that all the earth gives testimony
to “a God who is ineffably and invisibly great and ineffably and invisibly
beautiful.”
-- On Our Way: Christian
Practices for Living a Whole Life, edited by Dorothy C. Bass and Susan R.
Briehl
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