Journal~Day 9:
A) Began the tedious task of sewing the heart and star ornaments.
B) I've been receiving "Read the Catechism in A Year" emails (shhh... more often than not, I don't read them and just delete them unopened). This one caught my attention though and has been the center of much meditation for me: (holistic, contemplation)
B) I've been receiving "Read the Catechism in A Year" emails (shhh... more often than not, I don't read them and just delete them unopened). This one caught my attention though and has been the center of much meditation for me: (holistic, contemplation)
338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the
Creator. The world began when God's word drew it out of nothingness; all
existent beings, all of nature, and all human history are rooted in this
primordial event, the very genesis by which the world was constituted and time
begun.
339 Each creature possesses its own particular goodness and
perfection. For each one of the works of the "six days" it is said: "and God saw
that it was good." "By the very nature of creation, material being is endowed
with its own stability, truth and excellence, its own order and laws." Each of
the various creatures, willed in its own being, reflects in its own way a ray of
God's infinite wisdom and goodness. Man must therefore respect the particular
goodness of every creature, to avoid any disordered use of things which would be
in contempt of the Creator and would bring disastrous consequences for human
beings and their environment.
340 God wills the interdependence of creatures. The sun and
the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the
spectacle of their countless diversities and inequalities tells us that no
creature is self-sufficient. Creatures exist only in dependence on each other,
to complete each other, in the service of each other.
341 The beauty of the universe: the order and harmony of the
created world results from the diversity of beings and from the relationships
which exist among them. Man discovers them progressively as the laws of nature.
They call forth the admiration of scholars. the beauty of creation reflects the
infinite beauty of the Creator and ought to inspire the respect and submission
of man's intellect and will.
344 There is a solidarity among all creatures arising from
the fact that all have the same Creator and are all ordered to his glory: May
you be praised, O Lord, in all your creatures, especially brother sun, by whom
you give us light for the day; he is beautiful, radiating great splendour, and
offering us a symbol of you, the Most High. . .
May you be praised, my Lord, for
sister water, who is very useful and humble, precious and chaste.
May you be praised, my Lord, for sister earth, our mother, who bears and feeds us, and produces the variety of fruits and dappled flowers and grasses. . .
Praise and bless my Lord, give thanks and serve him in all humility.
May you be praised, my Lord, for sister earth, our mother, who bears and feeds us, and produces the variety of fruits and dappled flowers and grasses. . .
Praise and bless my Lord, give thanks and serve him in all humility.
~~~~BROTHER SUN~SISTER WATER~SISTER EARTH~~~~
I like that....
I like that....