relationship, not dominance

Sunday May 30th Genesis 1: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. In the beginning was nothingness, except the word of God, and thus life began from that word, from that spirit emanating from the God of creation. Even there we hear of the Spirit hovering over the waters of chaos bring newness and life from the nothingness and chaos. The Spirit, the breath of life itself that comes from God as a gift to this creation called, and therefore made good. God started this little experiment called life out of love brought to life with the breath of God. God said “Yes”, and the relationship between God’s love and all that is, all creation, began. Guided each step along the way by the loving, life giving, breath of God. In Buddhists thought, all of life contains a part of all other life. That is a good way to see the work of the Spirit and a calling as to how we are to treat all life. All life around us, including ourselves, holds in its essence, a part of God, we therefore are called to live in relationship with, not dominance over, this wonderful gift from God.