Being Christian Without Losing Your Mind
God saw everything he had made: it was supremely good. — Genesis 1:31 A recurring theme in these meditations is that it is impossible be truly spiritual if we lose touch with the physical. In a talk given by Father Richard Rohr, he stressed the absolute importance of connecting to the earth. “One of the …
God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over…every living thing that moves on the earth.” – Genesis 1:27 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. – Genesis 2:15 Have you ever noticed how …
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth! — Psalm 8:9 This picture was taken on a beach in St. Joseph, Michigan. It was at sunset. The boats you see aren’t there by accident. An armada of them go out every late afternoon to witness this beauty. Afterward they form a line down a nearby …
God saw everything he had made: it was supremely good. — Genesis 1:31a The first creation story simply ends with God calling everything supremely good. I used to read it from the perspective of the second creation story, with Adam/Eve/The Fall. It’s like things were perfect, then we messed it up. That’s not right. It …
On the seventh day God rested from all the work he had done. — Genesis 2:2 All the times I’ve read this ending to the first creation story, I never asked myself a very logical question. If God is almighty, all-powerful, omnipotent, omniscient…etc….then WHY DID GOD NEED TO REST? After all, the psalmist knew this …
And then there’s the sea, wide and deep, with its countless creatures—living things both small and large. – Psalm 104:25 We’re a culture celebrating big. Skyscrapers, mountains, galaxies. It’s important to note that without the small, there is no big. For example, each of us is made up of 50 trillion cells. Each of those cells …
God made every kind of wildlife, every kind of livestock, and every kind of creature that crawls on the ground. God saw how good it was. – Genesis 1:25 While sheltering in place, I’m binge-ing on some documentaries. One of my favorites is a Netflix series titled “Absurd Planet.” It highlights the strangest looking and …