The Creator calls people into everlasting Trinitarian communion. Our Heavenly Father created because he delights in all of us. He loves people. He is pro-people. He is for all people. “Nothing could be more fundamentally pro-people than the God who creates us so as to call us to this unfathomably high supernatural destiny, communion with himself . . . .”[1]
Spring Flowers, Filoli House and Garden, Woodside, California
God has created us to find joy in the beauty and goodness we find all around us. It’s good for us to learn how to perceive the created world with a sense of wonder, rooted in the way in which the created world carries within its own beauty many signs of the infinite beauty of its Creator.[2] This morning, I saw ten Canada geese fly overhead, perfectly spaced, flying in formation. It brought such joy to my heart. I looked out my kitchen window at lunchtime and there was a little squirrel working tirelessly in my backyard, busily hiding his treasures to get ready for winter. Poet Thomas Traherne writes: “You never enjoy the world aright, till you see how a grain of sand exhibits the wisdom and power of God; and prize in everything the service which they do you, by manifesting his glory and goodness to your soul.”[3] I agree. God’s goodness is all around us and we receive it when we have eyes to see. We want to regain the “vision at the heart of creation and the ability to see that vision.”[4]
[1] Engaging the Doctrine of Creation, Chapter 7, loc. 9283.
[2] Centuries of Meditation 1:27 in Selected Poems and Prose cited in David Duntley Hart, Doors of the Sea, 56.
[3] Traherne, Centuries of Meditation 1:27, in Selected Poems and Prose; cited in Bentley Hart, Doors of the Sea, 56, quoted in Matthew Levering, Engaging the Doctrine of Creation. Chapter 7, footnote 10.
[4] Margaret Barker, Creation, 287, quoted in Matthew Levering, Engaging the Doctrine of Creation. Chapter 7, footnote 10.
The content of this post is from All Creation Sings by Luann Budd.