The creation stories in Genesis tell us that God created the planet and its creatures in wondrous diversity and ecological balance. Humans were to care for what God had made. Some say we are now at a point where human beings are becoming un-creators of this treasure. The future of the earth hangs in the balance. Can we turn away from the attitudes and practices that have led us to this dangerous and potentially irreversible point? How can our trust in a life-giving, merciful God sustain us as we try to find a new way to live that can sustain our fragile earth home?

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

For God So Loved the Dirt

The current issue of Sojourners magazine has a great article by this title "For God So Loved the Dirt." It talks about God's as the supreme gardener and how gardening can be foundational to our Christian vocation.

If the world, theologically described, is God's garden, then there is nothing more appropriate and important than for us to learn to garden like God does. Gardening matters because that is how God continuously creates, cares for, and sustains the world. It is the way both God and humanity more fully discover the world -- with our eyes, ears, noses, tongues, and toes -- as a delightful place worthy of Sabbath celebration. How would our political, social, and economic worlds have to change if people came to see planet Earth as an immense and diverse garden, the focal point of God's abiding attention, devotion, and love? By Norman Wirzba

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