What a weekend! My choir concerts were HYPE! God was glorified!
Sunday morning Sherri brought me to an Eco-Sabbath. A group of us got together to reflect on God's creation. It was beautiful. At the beginning we heard a piece of music (Meditation from Thais - Massenet). I closed my eyes and pictured God creating on His great canvas of the Earth. I pictured him sliding his thumb down the Earth and seeing a river starting to to trickle, or His hands reaching into the earth and pulling out mountains. I pictured Him flicking His fingers and seeing trees and forests come into being. It was beautiful.
One of the quotes from the service: "The universe is the primary sacred community...In general, however, we have thought of the Earth as joining in the religious expression of the human rather than the human joining in the religious expression of the Earth. We have consistently thought of the human as primary and the earth as derivative..." (Thomas Berry)
I'm a city girl, and don't often think about Creation, but it was really humbling to realize how long the Earth has been alive and how small a part humans are in it. And yet we hold so much power. The universe has been around for billions of years, and only in the last 50 years have we started to sersiouly destroy it. And the way we're treating the environment, we'll be the first species ever to exterminate ourselves. That's scary, eh? It was humbling also to realize that I often think of myself as a creator rather than part of the creation.
Let's take care of our dear planet - for the sake of generations to come, and for the Artist's sake.
1 comment:
We humans may undeed exterminate ourselves if we don't learn to control a tendency toward overpopulation. However, we won't be the first species to do so, as your comments suggest.
Hippopotamus commmunities have been known to grow too large for the grasslands they depend on for survival. Wallowing in rivers by day, hippos forage at night on short grasses growing by the riverside. Their footpaths cut through the grass lawns that line the rivers.
When hippo population densities grow, the huge animals are forced to roam up to 20 miles from the river banks. Their hunt for food results in erosion and destruction of the habitat they depend on. In extreme cases, their communities don't survive this stress on their habitat.
People can learn a lesson from the hippos, if they care too.
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