Cultivating Love Through Creation
It is difficult to think about longer brighter days, new growth, and the colors that enter our world with spring coming, when there is a new blanket of snow blowing around outside creating hazardous driving conditions. As I write this article, I am pondering on how I can create a meaningful study on the Lord’s Prayer through Facebook Live tonight since we are not able to gather in person.
But by the time you read this, the snow that is blanketing us today will provide moisture for the new growth that we will witness this month. As our trees begin budding and providing leafy shade, and the spring flowers sprout and bloom, let us remember the promises of new life that come in the events of Holy Week – from Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday to Easter Vigil, and then the new life of Easter and the resurrection life. In these events we remember God’s story of bringing new life and new creation even amid the most uncertain, anxious and dark days. At the same time, this month is a perfect opportunity to remember the goodness of all of God’s creation which God entrusts into our care. God is doing something new, cultivating new creation and new life, for me and for you, and for all of God’s beloved.
Our Cultivating Love theme for April is “Cultivating Love through Creation”.
Cultivating Creation provides an intentional opportunity for us to look outward beyond the walls of our church … even the walls of our home. It calls us to think bigger. To see the fields, rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains and all of the world that surrounds us, and to care for all of creation. God calls us to care for and cultivate creation, and to focus on growing as disciples and stewards of God’s love.
So, a question to ponder on this month is this: How might God be inviting you to join in and cultivate creation? What are two or three ways that you will cultivate creation this year?
Our Lenten Midweek worship/study continues with our look into the Book of Faith, 40 Days in the Lord’s Prayer. I always learn a lot with this study and I hope that you too are experiencing newness in your relationship with God through this study.
– Pastor Patti Meyer