It is interesting to encounter the convergence of Good Friday and Earth Day. This morning my youngest daughter was singing a song about "mother earth" that she learned at school...
I went for a run today and even amidst the ridiculous wind, the fragrance of the delicately beautiful wild flowers and honeysuckle overwhelmed me. Last weekend I sat in our backyard garden watching as barn swallows, house finches, cardinals, doves, and blue jays stopped to eat at our bird feeder.
Tonight as we drove home from church, I watched an amazing sunset unfold in the sky; and I thought about the crucifixion of my Savior, who also happens to be the Creator of this amazing earth we inhabit. I considered how fitting it is to take a day to focus on caring for this home we have been entrusted with on the day we celebrate the life we are given due to the sacrifice of our Creator.
May I honor His creation because it draws me to worship the Beauty of its Creator. May I reverently care for this world because He's asked me to. May I never lose sight of Him.
Through Him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men... He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God...
-John 1: 3-4, 10-12
