Creation Care

Some random but connected data, thoughts, and prayer from my recent retreat with the Creation care community, which met at Cathedral Ridge.

This conversation is not about gardening. It is a time for understanding our connection to the wonders of the gift that the Creator created for us to live in during the earthly portion of our existence. This year’s focus of the Season of Creation is Living Water. We are baptized into His kingdom with His living water flowing over our body. As the Israelites fled Egypt, they were sustained by drinking His living water that came from the rock. His living water showers the earth to nourish the world to provide all creatures with nourishment. His rivers that flow with His living water wash away our sins. His living water is around us, in us, and by it we are sustained.

So why do we treat his gift so poorly? Now that we are reminded of your relationship, will we behave differently?

There are four overarching watersheds in Colorado: The Colorado, the South Platte, the Arkansas, and the Rio Grande. We live in the South Platte watershed. The water that flows through this watershed originates from water deposited on the Continental Divide. The Divide’s water provides life to 19 states and Mexico where 80 million people live. Half of these reside in the Colorado watershed.

This month thank God each time you use some of His living water while you drink, shower, watch the rain fall, or admire water upon the land. From a drop from the faucet to the torrent of an overfilled river, we are changed when we let God be the Creator.

As we gaze upon this land that so thirsts for your water, let it remind us of all the thirsts in this world: the thirst for justice, the thirst for peace, the thirst for opportunity, the thirst for reconciliation, and the thirst for hope.

When your blessings rain from the sky, and we kneel again at the pools and fountains, teach us to cup our hands, and gently, gracefully, in solidarity, turn first, and share with one another. Amen (Edward Hoyt)

Humbly,

Peter