Questions

What does it mean to say that the creation is holy?  What does it mean to think of it as being filled from one end to the other with the essence of God, the Creator?  What does it mean to explore as reality the possibility that it bears the imprint of the Holy One as surely as the man and the woman created within it?  Many of us grew up reciting The Apostle's Creed which begins with the words, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth..."  but it was mostly words and not something which caused us hours of wondering about this connection between the Creator and the Creation.   

What does it say about all that is around us if it truly is something that God has created?  Are the words an affirmation that all of creation, things seen and unseen, things that move and things that are fixed, and the things that are always in the process of changing have been touched and continue to be simply because the Creator, the maker of heaven and earth, has His hand upon it?  There are more than enough questions to keep us busy for some time, but the truth is we seldom really ask any of them, or give attention to exploring them.    

Of course, one of the essential questions which will inevitably rise in the midst of consideration or contemplation of this truth has to do with the way we are connected to the Creation, the way we are a part of it, and the way we live as one entrusted with the power of partnering with it to bring forth life as well as the responsibility of being one who lives with the power of dominion over it?  What does it mean when all of this which we touch is holy, bearing the imprint of the Creator?  The deeper we go into understanding who the Creator has created us to be midst the Creation of His hand, the more we realize that we have lived too long with a careless attitude which enables us to live with a take it for granted lifestyle.