Love All Creation
“O sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth.”
--From Psalm 96
The weekend will be a bit chilly compared to a couple weeks ago! Still, the spring flowers continue to push toward the sun. The lilac continues to show courage; clearly some leaves are wanting to burst forth from their bud. The green blades keep emerging from under the brown grass blades of winter. A new song is being sung in creation while we sit inside watching NCAA basketball, complete with the latest news interruptions.
Maybe this poetic piece by Fyodor Dostoyevsky can help frame our faith journey this weekend; it certainly seems to encourage us to sing a song of love for everything that surrounds us.
“Love all Creation
The whole of it and every grain of sand
Love every leaf
Every ray of God’s light
Love the animals
Love the plants
Love everything
If you love everything
You will perceive
The divine mystery in things
And once you have perceived it
You will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly
More and more everyday
And you will at last come to love the whole world
With an abiding universal love.”
A prayer: Creator God put a new song in my heart. Amen.
--Ben Keckler
04.01.11
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