Creation is Still Happening.

Deacon’s Corner

Creation is Still Happening.

Summary: New ideas, life-forms, and earth features are happening every day. Creation is not still, because God is alive and creating every day.

My sermon last week was sobering, but I hope not discouraging. There is always hope, both because we have the free will to change our behaviors, and because God never stops creating.

My favorite Psalm is #104. It’s a hymn of praise to God as the supreme Creator and Sustainer of all life, emphasizing God’s magnificent power, wisdom, and care for God’s creation.

 ²⁴O Lord, how manifold are your works!

    In wisdom you have made them all;

    the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵ There is the sea, great and wide;

    creeping things innumerable are there,

    living things both small and great.

²⁶ There go the ships

    and Leviathan (whale) that you formed to sport in it.

I love the idea that God takes great joy in creating. The psalm continues. . .

³¹May the glory of the Lord endure forever;

    may the Lord rejoice in his works—

³² who looks on the earth and it trembles,

    who touches the mountains and they smoke.

³³ I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;

    I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

Deacon Joanie

Rev. Dcn. Joanie Cahill

Deacon

St. Augustine of Canterbury