“And it was good … very good!!”

As I sit at our dining room table, looking out the window, it’s Wednesday. And outside the snow has been falling covering the buds on the trees and flowers beginning to come up in the garden. It’s a good day to be inside. And a bit strange too to have temperatures at the freezing point when just a few days ago we were up close to 20 degrees. Add to that that I could enjoy being out in shorts and my sandals a few days ago and today feel most comfortable in sweat pants and sweater. But that’s the weather patterns that have become “normalized”. And there’s a reason for it!

When we read the accounts of creation in Genesis, God looked around at the end of each day and said, “it is good”. In fact, he often elaborated on that to say “it was very good”. And  indeed, it was!! God created human beings; and God gave us as human beings the gift of creation to enjoy.. Along with that, God asked us as human beings to take care of all that He had created and given to us; we were called to be good stewards of all that was good. Read more.

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