Autumn has begun! With the change in season comes a time of celebration. During September, we will be giving thanks to God for the wonderful world that he has made for us and for the vast, vast, vast universe in which it is set. The scale of his creating and his sustaining is beyond our imagination. It involves numbers that are bigger than billions. Yet... yet God knows each one of us by name. He knows how we are feeling day by day. Which I always find so very amazing. If he knows me as well as this, then he knows everyone as deeply as this. WOW! He also knows how all of his creatures are feeling. Which species are thriving. Which are in decline because of our impact on the world that he made for all of us. Creationtide, for me, is also a time to recall that Planet Earth is not ours alone. It is the home of all God's creatures. When Jesus said, 'Love your neighbour as yourself', was he thinking about the skylarks in the fields, the worms burrowed deep down in the earth, the fish in the sea and the trees in the fields? May be, he was.
May all creation be freed to sing our Creator's praises.
Let all things their creator bless,
and worship him in humbleness,
O praise him, alleluia!
Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,
and praise the Spirit, Three in One.
O praise him, O praise him,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
William Henry Draper (1855-1933)
God bless,
Revd Katrina