Entanglement

The creation story in the beginning of the book of Genesis is one story told twice.  There is the carefully theologically defined account of the first chapter and then there is in the second chapter the folksy story which bears the markings of something passed on from one generation to another around the campfire.  I remember reading these first two chapters as a teenager and the frustration of not being able to make them fit together.  Back then it seemed that if something was looked at long enough, it could be figured out and now, after a life time of reading and living there is this awareness that more remains beyond the reach of being figured out.   

There are, of course, some common threads which we find in both accounts.  The main common thread is the work and presence of the Creator God.  What is does not bear the mark of chance or coincidence, but divine plan.  And, another common thread is the way everything that is created is connected to everything else.  It is not just everything that is connected, but everything and everyone.  Nothing and no one stands alone, but is in some way connected to the whole which is seen in many parts.  The deeper we go into the creation account the more we able to realize something of what the ancient mystics must have sensed as they spoke of Brother Sun, or danced in the presence of rising Sister Moon.  

Every part of the creation is intertwined in such a way that it is forever tangled together.  And what we sometimes forget is that we are a part of what God has tangled with the rest of creation.  We are a part of it.  Everything and everyone bears the imprint of the Holy.  To see what is around us through the lens of the creation story causes us to see the world around us as sacred space and not as something to be used for our pleasure and purposes.  Everything is connected for a reason and part of the mystery we are forever seeking to figure out has to do with our place in the entanglement of what we know as the creation.