Creator and Creation: Weekly Summary

Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendour! Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.2 There is something wonderfully childlike about this; they have one foot in nature and the other in the unseen part of God’s

Read Psalm 33 (“Our soul waits for the Lord. . . . Our heart is glad in him”). Consider: What am I waiting for? How is my heart filled with gladness as I reflect on creation?

We don’t read the Bible, pray, or perform some “spiritual task” so we can check them off our to-do lists. The practices, rather, create space for us to enjoy company with Jesus. They enable us to receive the life of God and are thus aptly called “a means of grace.”

Sabbath reminds us that God invites us to stop. In fact, it’s more than an invitation—it’s a command.

However, in the busyness of our modern lives, we spend little time with Jesus and wonder why we have so little power. We wonder why the church lacks power to heal broken marriages, lives wrecked by depression and alcoholism and hearts addicted to pornography. Our lives are frantic, busy and powerless because we do not take time to “stand before the