No creature has meaning without the Word of God. God’s Word is in all creation, visible and invisible. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word flashes out in every creature
Hildegard of Bingen
Video – Genesis2
In the act of believing in creation, we accept and enter into and submit to what God does – what God made and makes. We are not spectators of creation but participants in it. We are participants first of all by simply being born, but then we realize that our births all take place in the defining context of Jesus’ birth. The Christian life is the practice of living in what God has done and ins doing. We want to know the origin of things not to satisfy our curiosity about fossils and dinosaurs and the ‘big bang’ but so that we can live out of our origins. We don’t want our lives to be tacked on to something peripheral. We want to live origin-ally, not derivatively.
The perfect me? – using the clay, pens etc… imagine what would the perferct- origin-al you be like
How wonderful, Great Maker, are the things you make!
The wide expanse of the universe declares your glory,
the arch of the sky displays your handiwork
because you loved us so much,
you made us in such a way that we would be touched by the beauty of Your world.
It's appearance is more amazing than any fashion we could create.
The sun and the stars, the valleys and the hills,
the rivers and the lakes all shout out loud “God is here!”.
The roaring breakers of the sea tell of your awesome strength and power,
the beasts in the fields and the birds of the air
bear witness to the quality your design.
In your goodness you have made us able to hear
the music, the rhythms and harmonies of the world.
The voices of those that love us
reveal to us that you are here in our everyday lives.
A divine voice sings through all creation.
Jewish Psalm (adapted)
Music Track – 
"Creation" (Megablast)
The perfect world? – using the clay, pens etc… imagine what would the perferct- origin-al world be like
This is the irrational season
when love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
there'd have been no room for the child.
(Madeline L'Engle)
We like Mary, need to become wombs of the divine, allowing God to fertilize our creativity and give birth to newness… The newness that will be born will be incomplete and immature. It will be newness not fully formed and unable to speak. It will be newness defenceless and unable to justify itself to it’s seniors. It will be newness that is born into a culture and therefore totally and naturally immersed in the codes, the language, the history and life of that which it comes to serve.
(Kester Brewin)
In your time, Lord, in your time
Take the imperfect that is me and create
the person that I could be
In your time, Lord, in your time
Celtic Prayer
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