This is going to feed into a larger post coming soon on the role of gratitude in our lives, but I wanted to offer to you this excerpt from
Living the Sabbath by Norman Wirzba.
"The work of God's hand, the whole panorama of creation... testifies to a God who cares intimately and deeply about the world and desires that it be beautiful and at peace. The psalmist [of Psalm 92] believes that those who do not see this beauty and feel inwardly the marks of divine care are simply fools. They are guilty of a fundamental blindness and insensitivity, an inability to see the world for what it really is: the concrete manifestation of god's incomparable
hesed, Gods covenantal and creative love for the whole world. Being ignorant fools, they are likely to become wicked by destroying or spoiling the good gifts of God that are the nurturing root of our being and the inexhaustible source of our joy....
It is not a comforting exercise to contemplate whether we are among the dullards and the stupid, or whether our aggressive and anxious patters of living place us among the enemies of God. But we need to consider this as a real possibility. Why? Because it is surprisingly easy to be dishonest about our piety. We have to admit the possibility that we have overestimated our devotion, particularly when we note the overwhelming evidence of human destruction and despoliation of communities and creation
in the midst of our religiously informed culture. Though we may speak words of praise and thanks, does our living concretely manifest the deep gladness and appreciation, the celebration and respect the psalmist models, and thus render our speaking true?"
So... there you go.
And don't forget to check out my other blog experiment
here.
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