Earth Day Reflections

I have to start by being honest I'm not nearly as green as a should be and want to be. I'm still a relative new comer to being intentional about my consumption , more specifically trying to curb my consumption. I could go on about what we should do to be more green but that would be hypocritical.

Instead I want to suggest that we look at the universe around us with new eyes. It is far too easy to see the universe around us as if it was a machine, cold and dead. This is simply not the case the universe is infused with creativity. If you leave atoms alone long enough all kinds of amazing things happen.

If we begin to see the universe as alive and wonderful we begin to reconnect to the universe, to each other and to the source of it all. We must reconnect to our sense of wonder. Have you ever just stopped to be in awe at the natural things around us? Have you ever had a conversation with a tree? If you haven't I invite you to try it because I believe you will find it enlightening.

So today I challenge you to go out and be in awe today. Look at the world around you with wonder. After all God created and saw that it was good. Let us take time today to see for ourselves that it indeed is good.

Creativity

This week I have come in contact time and time again with discussion about how the creativity and spirituality are connected. Sense I believe in a creative creator God it makes good sense to me that creativity and faith are deeply connected.

The theologian Matthew Fox talks of creativity being at the very center of the universe we live in and I have to agree with him. The more I know about science the more I realize that the universe we live in is not some lifeless machine but is rather very much full of life and creativity.

If the world itself is creative and if God Godself is creative than does it not follow that we should be creative too. But creativity is not just something that is to be aspired to we must to have respect for it because not only do our most noble actions come from creativity but so do our darkest actions. We must always be checking our creativity with morality.

When our creativity is at its best we can be co-creators with God in a world that is more just, more loving and more sustainable. It is through creativity that I believe we will learn to deal with the climate crisis, create equal rights for all sisters and brothers and find ways to help the poor and oppressed.

I believe that creation is not some event that has happened in the past I believe that God continues to create all the time and that we are a part of that process through creativity. We as people are in process. We are becoming and the sooner we realize that we are never at where we need to be but that we are journeying the sooner we can begin to creatively help each other on the journey.