Rejoice During the Festival of Booths

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

Praise God the Provider

Deuteronomy 16:13-15. The Message

13-15 Observe the Feast-of-Booths for seven days when you gather the harvest from your threshing-floor and your wine-vat. Rejoice at your festival: you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, the Levite, the foreigner, and the orphans and widows who live in your neighborhood. Celebrate the Feast to God, your God, for seven days at the place God designates. God, your God, has been blessing you in your harvest and in all your work, so make a day of it—really celebrate!

For Reflection

I guess we could blame Aristotle and the growth of scientific observation not only for monumental improvements in our physical quality of life but also, for our lack of appreciation of metaphysical reality.  We now live in a world which rejects the metaphysical in favor of the existential.  Furthermore, any attempt to blend the two divergent points of view is met with skepticism. We seem to have lost the common knowledge of how to merge the objective truths of science and the subjective truths of spirituality.

As unimaginably mysterious as God is, God is the center of ethical behavior.  To discover how to live well is to look to God for justice, forgiveness, compassion, and hope.  God is the source of the regeneration of the spirit, the essence of what it means to be human.

So, celebrate with God.  Rejoice in the creation of which we are a part.  Humanity is blessed with the ability to approach life by discovering more and more about our physical world and to discover more and more about preserving our humanity through explorations with God.


Pray

Rejoice in God who has made you in God's own image.  Celebrate the blessings of imagination, and reason.   Pray so that you can center your life in the will of God.