I see being a
writer as a way of life, not just a way of making a living. It’s a way of revealing who I am, both to
myself and to others with who I relate with.
Perhaps that is God’s thought about creation.
Creation is a
gift, not a product to be bought and sold.
It somehow loses something of the spirit of an organism when we reduce
it to a physical material to be bartered for.
We have spoiled creation by making it into a commodity. Creation offers its gifts of beauty but we
destroy them to meet our demands of greed.
Empty fields become lots for condos, glorious trees become lumber to
build the condos; streams, rivers, and oceans become sewers for human waste; we
fill our land with mountains comprised of our trash; the sky is filled with the
pollution from our modes of travel. It
seems like everything that humans build for comfort is at the expense of and
sacrifice of God’s gift of creation. And
even at that, we refuse to acknowledge him or thank him.
We have made the
earth toxic which makes those of us who inhabit it toxic as well; individually
in our body, mind, and soul, and in our relationships with one another. We were warned about this time and time
again; we either ignored the warnings or we heard the warnings, agreed with
them, but kept on doing what we were doing anyway, because it met our
needs. In this humans haven’t changed
much since the beginning of time.
I love creation
and enjoy the creative process. But
creation requires inspiration and how can inspiration survive in toxic
conditions? Inspiration and creativity
are all God given gifts. But if we
continue to reject God where will the inspiration and creativity come from? Our own cisterns are broken and can hold no
water. Why would we choose those rather
than the fountains of living water that is God?
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