Daily Devotional
February 14: Love for Creation
- Scripture: Genesis 1:31 – God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.
- Reflection: Appreciate the beauty of God’s creation and our responsibility to care for it as an expression of love.
- Spiritual Practice Prompt: Spend some time outside in nature — or be with some aspect of the natural world such as sunlight, wind, water, green living things, or an animal — and reflect on God’s creation, thanking God for our corner of the world.
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- Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell: https://youtu.be/2595abcvh2M?si=AIb0Q9XF8LB8yJWc
We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. … We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. . . We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. ― Wendell Berry
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God. ― Wendell Berry