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Loving Nature

To us, a person cannot fully love God unless he or she also loves God's creation:

whether it's expressed in the form of Mary's painting at the top of the page, or in Carol Vito's photo of this winter wonderland,

or through the gentle beauty of this mother and child drinking water,

or the beauty of this spotted touch-me-not,

or through this cat and rat who prove that Isaiah's prophecy of a peaceable kingdom (11:6-9) is a reality,

or through this peaceful encounter with a mouse in a tree.

Comments by Stephen Augustine - 10 Jan 2003

Unask the question.

As long as we continue perceiving that "nature" is something out there, separate from us, then we simply don't get it.  To be fully human (and subsequently to walk with God) is to be an organic animal fully within "nature".  That, I believe, is the story of Genesis chapter 2. Is it not?

Peace,

Stephen

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