{"id":49147,"date":"2020-09-25T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=49147"},"modified":"2020-09-28T08:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:36:32","slug":"creation-day-six-creativity-hope-and-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/creation-day-six-creativity-hope-and-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation, Day Six: Creativity, Hope, and Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

In honor of the Season of Creation (September 1 \u2013 October 4), Pray Tell is running a series of posts on how the liturgy can help us to appreciate the wondrous gift of Creation, and how it can challenge us to care for Creation. Each post will reflect on one of the seven days of Creation described in the first chapter of Genesis.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Then God said: Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal. And so it happened: God made every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, and every kind of thing that crawls on the ground. God saw that it was good.\u00a0Then God said: Let us make\u00a0human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God created mankind in his image;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

in the image of God he created them;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

male and female\u00a0he created them.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.\u00a0Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.\u00a0God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food. And so it happened. God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed\u2014the sixth day.” <\/strong> Genesis 1:24-31<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With a simple call, \u201cLet there be light,\u201d God began the world, separating the dome of sky from the dry land and gathering the ocean pools.\u00a0 God planted a garden of trees and fruits, filled the sea with fish, and the sky with birds (and probably pterodactyls).\u00a0 God numbered the stars in the sky, and set two great lights to govern the night and day.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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All of this was very good, and yet things were only beginning to get interesting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

On the sixth day of creation, God created the first creatures who occupied the great middle earth\u2014the ones who could look up to see the sky, and bend down to touch the waters, but ones who neither dwelt in the sea nor in the trees, but laid their heads upon the great green earth.\u00a0 Every one of these creatures\u2014wild tigers and tame sheep, crawling turtles and creeping mice\u2014filled its unique space in the terrestrial ecosystem, playing a critical role in maintaining the beautiful balance of life God created (cf Laudato Si\u2019<\/a><\/em> 34).\u00a0 Each one had a role to play, and a mouth to be fed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And yet, God chose not to stop with pterodactyls and turtles.\u00a0 God insisted on creating a mammal that not only had a mouth to feed, but a mouth that could talk back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God created \u2019\u0101d\u0101m<\/em>, human beings in God\u2019s image\u2014in the image of God they were created, male and female they were created (Gen 1:27).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God called all the creatures to be fruitful and multiply, and named all creatures great and small \u201cgood,\u201d\u00a0but, the humans, God blessed.\u00a0 The humans were to fill the earth and subdue it, to have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the other creatures of the land.\u00a0 Evening came, and morning followed — the sixth day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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True, our Genesis creation accounts quickly move from the perfect peace experienced by all of creation, to the trouble that these creatures\u2014particularly those with the mouths that talked back — get themselves into . . . by chapter 3!\u00a0 The \u201cFall\u201d of humanity, banishment from the Garden, and subsequent spiral into sin and separation end up having implications not only for God\u2019s relationship with women and men\u2014but in the destruction and recreation of God\u2019s beautiful world (Genesis 6-9).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So, what can we learn from focusing on the sixth day of creation as a point of reflection?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Creativity is a gift of God <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Creation can surely be described as an act of creativity.\u00a0 Yet, we usually associate \u201ccreativity\u201d with \u201cspontaneity.\u201d\u00a0 As Christians, we believe that God has a plan for all of creation\u2014and God has a plan for all of us, as we read in Jeremiah 29:11 (\u201cFor I know well the plans I have in mind for you\u2026\u201d).\u00a0 This seems hardly spontaneous\u2014and yet I find it difficult to imagine that God is not \u201ccreative.\u201d\u00a0 Rather, God, by God\u2019s very nature, is creative\u2014the source and founder of all ingenuity, beauty, and surprises.\u00a0 What humans are afraid to imagine, God already knows.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What might God\u2019s creativity have to tell us?\u00a0 My little toddler creates worlds\u2014worlds where I\u2019m not entirely sure what laws of physics are meant to apply.\u00a0 And, she has a joyous time doing it, whether it\u2019s creating a feast out of play food, energetically talking with her menagerie of stuffed animals at 6:30 in the morning, or carting rocks through the backyard into her sandbox.\u00a0 We, intelligent, opinion-filled adults can\u2019t see what she sees\u2014but to her, creativity is boundless, and joy is found in the making.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The one thing we try not to do\u2014from experience\u2014is interrupt this creative process.\u00a0 She, for lack of a better word, finds it extremely annoying.\u00a0 Likewise, if we interrupt God\u2019s creative process in the world\u2014what does this look like?\u00a0 Allowing the Amazon rain forest to burn without a concern?\u00a0 Letting our car run in the parking lot, spewing out unnecessary carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?\u00a0 Continuing to insist on those plastic straws?\u00a0 Does our ignorance, our inability to see the beauty, or the larger pattern at play, lead to disruptive indifference toward our environment?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God doesn\u2019t want us to ignore or squash creativity, but to take part in it\u2014and rejoice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We (thankfully) don\u2019t know the future<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Adam and Eve were placed in paradise\u2014they didn\u2019t know that in mere moments they would be barred from that perfection with a fiery sword and domineering cherubim.\u00a0 Likewise, God may know what our future holds\u2014but I have to say I\u2019m glad that I don\u2019t.\u00a0 But, because we are God\u2019s creatures who have been touched by the light of Christ, we have been taught to hope: hope in the future, hope in goodness, hope in peace, and hope in a great restoration with our God which will last from age to age unending.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And yet hoping is so difficult\u2014while worrying is so easy.\u00a0 I know, because I have what can only be described as a \u201cgenetic proclivity\u201d toward incessant worrying.\u00a0 My grandmother worried that the piano in the living room would fall through the floor.\u00a0 My mother worries that my refrigerator might catch on fire while I\u2019m on vacation.\u00a0 I worry about everything else (just ask me how I freak out if my husband\u2019s late coming home\u2014the stories are too long to share here).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If I knew <\/em>that my daughter would experience \u201cx\u201d difficulty, or my husband and I would have to decide about \u201cy\u201d at some point, or that the next political fiasco would be \u201cz,\u201d I feel I\u2019d simply sink into despair.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t give us more to worry about at one time than we can, assumedly, handle.\u00a0 As we hear from Jesus in Matthew 6:34, \u201cDo not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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We don\u2019t know what the future will hold with respect to our fragile world.\u00a0 I worry about the natural disasters that have displaced thousands in the Caribbean this hurricane season.\u00a0 I worry about the self-imposed human disasters which have put untold numbers of migrants and refugees at risk as they make their way to Europe . . . or the United States.\u00a0 I worry about mass shootings and children hiding in closets and dark rooms at their grade schools.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Worrying will do nothing.\u00a0 Acting may do a little, even if it\u2019s only my donation to Catholic Relief Services.\u00a0 God wants us to hope and work for a better world.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We are, at the end of the day, still good<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Despite the unknowns, the struggles, and the sadness we know unfolds for God\u2019s creation and creatures\u2014we also know that God has named us good.\u00a0 And God does not speak empty words; God only speaks truth.\u00a0 Therefore, despite the evil which penetrates our world\u2014poisoning our atmosphere and oceans, as well as our minds and hearts\u2014our world is still good, we are still good, and we have the potential to do good in and for the world.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Believing in goodness is perhaps the hardest of all because it involves both creative joy and hope. How can we believe in “goodness” when we are so regularly confronted with death, destruction, deceit, and a wide world so full of problems that even a U.N. Global Climate Summit<\/a> is described as receiving \u201cfew commitments\u201d and \u201csilence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Believing in goodness requires us to look beyond what we see in the present to some creative new realm\u2014and to hope beyond what we believe to be possible.\u00a0 It is so easy to see imperfections and impossibilities.\u00a0 It is much harder to recognize the good.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Certainly, we cannot deny the challenges combating us and all creation.\u00a0 But neither can we deny God\u2019s call to be and do good in this world.\u00a0 We are called to recognize the world\u2014of infinite beauty and goodness\u2014as magnifying the Lord (LS 12). \u00a0We are called to work for the \u201ccommon good,\u201d which supports all human flourishing (LS 17), and to recognize even the earth\u2019s climate as a crucial \u201ccommon good\u201d required for the good of all (LS 23).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Our Creator God is one who can only be described as having \u201cgoodness beyond measure\u201d (LS 77).\u00a0 We, created by God to sustain and care for the earth, have as our God-inscribed duty to recognize and celebrate the goodness of the world and to be good in the world\u2014even if a flaming sword still bars the way to paradise.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the end, the sixth day of creation reveals more to us than the first stage appearance of Adam and Eve.\u00a0 Remembering the sixth day of creation calls us to remember that \u201call of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation\u201d (LS 14).\u00a0 May we use our creativity, our hope, and our stalwart belief in God who allows us, too, to look at creation\u2014and call it good.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Still to come, in the series on Creation:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Teresa Berger on Day Seven<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Click\u00a0<\/em>here\u00a0<\/em><\/a>to read Fritz Bauerschmidt on Day One<\/em>, Rita Ferrone on Day Two<\/a>,<\/em> Jill Crainshaw on Day Three<\/a>, Alan Hommerding on Day Four<\/a>, and James Hadley on Day Five<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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