CREATION TIME
During this four week season
we experience the deep impulse of God’s
word which calls forth creation, and stirs
life. We affirm our kinship with everything
God has created and is creating, are
made conscious of the crisis of human
domination, and encouraged to live in
and toward a vision of new heavens and
new earth.
we experience the deep impulse of God’s
word which calls forth creation, and stirs
life. We affirm our kinship with everything
God has created and is creating, are
made conscious of the crisis of human
domination, and encouraged to live in
and toward a vision of new heavens and
new earth.
Season of Creation
The Season of Creation began in the year 2000 and has
grown in its use around the world. Increasingly churches
recognize the need for us to spend some time thinking about
creation, our place within it, and how we are to interact
with it. According to the Season of Creation website (www.
seasonofcreation.com) we are encouraged to “celebrate
Earth as a sacred planet filled with God’s vibrant presence.”
grown in its use around the world. Increasingly churches
recognize the need for us to spend some time thinking about
creation, our place within it, and how we are to interact
with it. According to the Season of Creation website (www.
seasonofcreation.com) we are encouraged to “celebrate
Earth as a sacred planet filled with God’s vibrant presence.”
The season covers the first four Sundays of the month of
September, chosen for their proximity in the calendar to the
feast of St. Francis of Assisi on October 4. St. Francis was
well known for his passion for creation and our need both
to appreciate it and to care for it.
The four Sundays this year are Planet Earth, Humanity,
Sky, and Mountain. The scripture texts for each week help
us think about the theme and explore how it connects with
our own living.
Many churches like to use this season to get involved
in programs that help to serve creation. Outreach programs
deal with recycling; cleaning up parks, highways, or
streams; or outreach to helping agencies – remembering
that people are part of creation, too!
in programs that help to serve creation. Outreach programs
deal with recycling; cleaning up parks, highways, or
streams; or outreach to helping agencies – remembering
that people are part of creation, too!
We are all a part of creation. Sometimes we want to think
that somehow we – human beings – are unique and different
from other things, but scripture reminds us that we
are really all one and the same. This year’s readings for the
Season of Creation help affirm that. For the first two weeks
of the season we read from Genesis 1, probably the most
“famous” of the Bible’s several creation stories. In this one,
God’s spirit hovers over the waters at the very beginning of
time. It’s intriguing to think, even before God created, there
was something – water – already there.
Throughout the creation story in Genesis 1, God is in
charge. At times when we feel as though life is shaky, or
scary, it can be reassuring that from the very beginning of
time God has had a sense of order for all creation, and that
somehow things will always work out and fall into place.
Perhaps it was just for times like this that the early biblical
writers developed this story.
As we journey through this Season of Creation, may
we be mindful of the overarching theme for this year –
God’s Word. www.seasonofcreation.com reminds us “The
Word is a deep impulse summoning forth creation, evoking
praise from creation and stirring life in creation.” May we
find our lives stirred that, as part of creation, we might
praise God!
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