Without Excuse Creations

    "Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith."
(Luke 12: 27,28)

     Lord, give us Grace to comprehend the delicate majesties of your creation that everywhere surround us, and remind us somehow through them how dear and precious we are to You....as dear to You now as the "apple of your eye". Lord, please increase our faith.....

      "In a desert land he found him,
           in a barren and howling waste.
        He shielded him and cared for him;
           he guarded him as the apple of his eye."
                      (Deuteronomy 32: 10)

" 'Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?' Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank." (Numbers 20: 10,11)

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"...whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4: 14)

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    "For the Lamb at the center of the
         throne will be their shepherd;
         he will lead them to springs of
             living water,
       And God will wipe away every tear
           from their eyes."
           (Revelation 7:17)

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Lord, please remind us through your creation...your general revelation...that You are the fountainhead of all Life and Goodness. By your Grace, please lead us to this ever-present wellspring of your Mercies.

God, beyond our dreams, you have stirred in us a mem'ry; You have placed your pow'rful spirit in the hearts of humankind. All around us we have known you, all creation lives to hold you. In our living and our dying we are bringing you to birth.
--Bernadette Farrell ("God Beyond All Names")

Scripture begins and ends (in the Books of Genesis and Revelation) with references to the Tree of Life. Like “Bookend Sentinels” this reference invites inquiry and contemplation, meditation and even, perhaps, our prayers.

Lord, your creation constantly speaks of your glory and your majesty, though we so often simply do not see. Please help us with this blindness....Remind us of what You have done (and what You are doing) in and through creation and in our lives as You call to us and draw us to yourself. Father, place your seed within us......

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed."
(1Peter 2: 24)