We believe that God creates all things and that we may find in them God's presence and energy by learning to share our lives with other people and care for our kinship with all all that wonderfully shares and supports our lives.
How has creation been the "hiding place and revelation of God" for you?
What have you "learned" about God from looking at creation?
Reflection: As Christians we believe we come from a loving God who freely creates us to discover the mystery of God's love in our lives.
Sacramentality: The view that God is in all things in the world.
God is found in all things, great and small.
All of the Earth, including ourselves, are given to us so that we may find God.
Lectio Divina (Divine Reading)- practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God's Word. It does not treat Scripture as texts to be studied, but as the Living Word.
Traditionally Lectio Divina has 4 separate steps: read, meditate, pray and contemplate. First a passage of Scripture is read, then its meaning is reflected upon. This is followed by prayer and contemplation on the Word of God.
1. What does it say?
2. What does it say to YOU?
3. How do you respond to it?
4. Be still, contemplative.
Spirit and matter are one. Is not matter made of energy? Is not Spirit made of energy? Is not God... Energy? God is in, of, and IS everything!
God is revealed in everything!
By holding a duelistic viewpoint:
Secular vs. Sacred
Profane vs. Holy
Matter vs. Spirit
is to limit God.
I only started to really recognize God in and as nature when I started hiking with Celeste. I understood it even more when I had the "Big Bang Cognition." The Big Bang as the beginning of God's Creation: "Let there BE..."
Q?: How is it that what I am learning here seems so radically removed from what I always though I knew about Catholicism?
Notes from recommended scriptural readings:
Hos 11:1-4
Despite our faults, despite our stubbornness, God will still love us. He will not give up on us.
Rom 1:19-20
God shows Himself to us plainly in the everyday world. We must CHOOSE to see it!
That is why I do all the yard work. You should come dig in the garden with me :-*
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