Who Started This? Creation

What does this mean?

Are the individuals, families and organizations able to function with God's creative activity recognizable in their words, actions and relationships?

When someone looks at the life of the community, is it obvious that folks are thankful that God has set them down in this place and time as a gift?

Psalm 8

What are the people of your community and congregation that God is mindful of them?

As you read the 8th Psalm, hear the words and their flow as coming from your Creator. You are created as a human being because God wants to have you to love.

What is there in this passage that speaks to your inner self? Read several translations of this passage in order to gain a deeper understanding of the sense of the passage. You might make a list of a half dozen issues of your deepest consciousness. Then consider how this passage speaks to each of these issues.

How are these words passed to you in any way through history? To say it another way, why do you have these words about the thinking of God?

You might trace the path of this transmission from the Creation to today. Or just trace them from the ancient Hebrews living in what is now Iraq to yourself. What is there about living where and when you are that is touched by this passage?

Use all the space and time you need to trace these feelings of God from then until now. What impact do these emotions of God have on your sense of who you are? Remember, everyone's feelings are as important as anyone else's feelings. While your actions are not as powerful as God's actions at times, your feelings are just as important. God did not say that Adam and Eve should not feel as they did. Rather, they were just not to take some specific actions.

If your community has a good sense of creation, reality itself is seen in the community as a personal gift from God for the benefit of humankind. It is therefore to be treated with as much respect, gratitude, concern and understanding as can be mustered. God creates the world and humankind, then comes to us bearing the additional gifts of the Spirit and the Christ. Matters of ecology and resources are of intense concern for the whole community as response to Creation itself.

Within the Hopi Nation of Arizona exists a powerful sense of the Creator. Rituals of dance and song and meditation typically focus our senses on living within the dream of the Creator for the world. From the high mesas of the reservation the Hopi can and do survey from now until tomorrow the world around them.

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