God Gives Humanity Its Dignity

Creation: A Divine Cycle
Praise from and for God's Creation

Praise God the Creator

Psalm 8. New International Version

A psalm of David.

1 Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
    to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[c]
5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]
    and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
    you put everything under their[g]feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
    and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth

For Reflection

Look closely at the heavens on a clear cool night. Marvel at the glorious display of stars and planets.  Think about what the science of astronomy has added to the understanding of time and space.  Contemplate the Earth and the place that we occupy on it.  Give in to the wonder and mystery of the universe. Accept the mystery of the human mind and know that God will reveal all to us in God's time.  Over generations before us and infinite generations to follow, God, having given us the capacity to question, seek and understand, has, in God's own time, revealed God's self in the glory of God's creation.  In the science of discovery, we find God.

Pray

Thank God for making us in God's image.  Thank God for giving us the power of imagination, of language, of science and of poetry.  Thank God for sharing God's capacity to wonder, to invent and to learn.  Praise God and seek God in all things