All tagged creation
God created us to be creative, and if co-creating is a way that we can experience the divine—well, God is making things beautiful in their time. And God allows us to join him in that endeavor so that the world will see him, know him, and come to glorify him.
May you find rest in the winter of doubt and receive the affirmation of spring.
If your biggest news is about an interesting insect whose path you crossed on your walk, then you’re onto something.
Reflecting on years of teaching young students, I am reminded of exercises captioned “Listen and do.” Might this be a simple, yet awfully mature, set of ancient instructions?
Remember the song, “Make new friends and keep the old; one is silver and the other’s gold”? All are precious partners in God’s mission.
The resurrection Spirit pursues us as we continually cycle through relational renewal with the evidential environment of the created world: with the people, the creatures, the living organisms therein.
Is the voice of God always a word? Might it be found in a child’s exploration of a grandparent’s elderly, muscular hands? Is God’s voice in the soil they worked? Listen.
Ask, seek, knock. Pray those bold prayers and there will come a day when God’s responsiveness comes tumbling after you. Expectantly wear sturdy shoes every day of your life lest you be bowled over by the love of God.
One of the marks of spiritual growth is a constant sense of God’s abiding presence through the good and the bad in our lives.
Children are not only a blessing; they play an essential role in the divine plan and the identity of God’s people.
It is a profound thought. The notion that our God is capable of creating a new world. Of calling into being things that were not.
I think this kind of thing happens way more than we think. People choose to create their own reality. If life does not suit you, create the one you want.
Alaska was everything and more than I ever expected it to be.
Lord God, who created this world,
and all that is in it to be good—very good.
