Articulation of the Voice

We live within the Creation.  Our lives are dependent upon it.  We are connected to it as surely as we are born connected to our Mother.  Perhaps, the cord and the scar on our belly are reminders that we are a part of a whole and not the whole itself.  The Creation is all around us.  We may live as if it is something which can be ignored, but to ignore it is to live a diminished life.  The book of Genesis speaks of an irrevocable link between each one of us and the Creation in which we live.     

The Creation is not really understood by calling it Mother Nature.  It is a holy gift from God for each one of us to experience.  It is not some neutral part of the physical world, but a revelation of the presence of God.  And, what comes as a surprise to many is that the Creation is also an articulation of the Voice of God.  Moses heard the Voice of God in a fiery bush.  Amos was called from the quietness of an agricultural life to the life of a main street prophet.  The Word is full of notes about things like sowing seed, fig trees, sheep, rivers, and mountains.  Jesus saw these things in the Creation around Him and a Word stirred in His heart which found expression through His preaching and teaching.   

The Voice of God is still being spoken through the Creation around us.  It is not a Voice heard with the ears of birth, but with the inner senses and the inner spirit which is often the only part of us that is in tune with the voiceless words being spoken by the Creation.  While this may be a sensitivity with which we are born, it is one lost in the hurried and busy pace we live where all but the loudest sounds are drowned and not to be heard.  This means that for many of us hearing the divine articulation of the Creation may require some learning, some discipline, some praying, and allowing ourselves to enter into the silence until it enters into us.