Care for God’s creation
From today’s Scripture: “When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place…”–Ps 8:3-4
Most mornings I sit on the porch of our country home, reveling in the sights and sounds of God’s creation: sunrise through trees, crickets chirping, birds tweeting, frogs croaking, goldfish swimming, hummingbirds whirring, butterflies feeding, woodpeckers pecking, roosters crowing, cows mooing, chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, deer, and wild turkeys passing through.
Popes Francis, Benedict XVI and John Paul II all named ecology a matter of moral urgency. We all are called to take that more seriously, to do more to care for creation. Where to start. Suggestions abound, for example in the Catholic Climate Covenant. Look it up!
Let us pray: Lord, thank you for your creation. Help me to do what I can to protect it.
Today’s author is Polly Duncan Collum, one-time parish-lay-missioner and now director of the Glenmary’s Commission for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.
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