Creation

I love the stars and have wanted to learn so much about planets, stars, galaxies and whatever is out there. Those dark places where the sky becomes overwhelming, I just love that and feel very small in comparison. I need a new telescope, a good one, but then again,I know me and I will get deeply involved in researching and studying all there is to know about a telescope and then I will want a really nice one and…..well you can see the road ahead of me and how expensive it might be.

The truth is, I really don’t need a telescope. All I really need to do is open my eyes to all that is around me. The Creator of all is right here with us all of the time. I guess one thing that has always bothered me is to be taught in church that God is in heaven (wherever that is and church will not tell me) and we are on Earth and that is the way it is. We only get to see God when we die.

How in the world did we get so far down this sad path? Throughout the Christian scriptures and through many other sacred texts, we are told that God is in, IS, all of creation. The Western world made God into a mechanistic creator, aloof from the creation. This is a sad lie we have perpetuated for hundreds of years. I can go out into my yard and see the face of God in the Black capped Chickadees at the feeder or in the budding pear tree. I can stay in the house and see God in the faces of my dogs or cats. How did we remove God from the Creation of God?

This mechanistic view of things do not make sense to me. I have been fortunate enough to travel to many places in this world. In each place, Creation spoke to me. From the 5,000 year old Jain temple, to the Cradle of Humankind to the faces of the children in Alexandra Township, each and every place I found the Creator right there waiting for me. I think the problem is that we are not taught that God is ever present in every thing. The reason Christ came, perhaps, was to make that clear in a very personal way.

I intend to open my eyes wide and my heart wider. I need to see God in all that is around me. Most especially I need to realize that I am created to live in community and that everyone around me is that community. How big is your heart? Can you let so many in, as Christ did? Join me in working on it, even those we really don’t care for are part of God in all of creation.

TMM