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Loving God’s Creation

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Loving God’s Creation

By

Marion S. Simpson

 

 

Loving God’s creation, planet earth and all that inhabits it is a daunting task

 

 

Taking care of our environment is vitally important - the earth is not self-sustaining - we must be good stewards because we are only tenants God is the owner.

 

 

As God declares in Genesis: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” (Gen. 1:26-28

 

 

This statement alerts us to the great responsibility that has been placed upon all of us to love and protect our planet and all that inhabits it. When we are doing this we are obeying God’s instructions.

 

 

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was an abbess, a prophet, a mystic visionary, a healer and a theologian who lived during the middle ages, has said that “Everything that is in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.”

 

This truth was revealed to her in a vision in which she saw the Universe in the form of an egg with everything inside the egg dependant on all the other parts. We are all part of God’s great cosmic plan and vision. We must always be mindful of this great truth

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