“For the beauty of this Earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth, over and around us lies, Lord of all to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.”[1] If we live in the knowledge of how God gives a purpose to every plant and animal and […]

Baptism You lift off the helmet of knowing, gently drop it. You take off the armor of being right. Unbuckle the chain mail of good enough— lift it over your head, with a little awkward squirming to get it off, it’s so tight. You unbutton the coat of deserving, untie the padding of what people […]

Somehow this didn’t post on January 5th, 2026, so here it is! Writing about the Creation story means that there are unlimited topics to cover. Today, the topic is insects. “Oh, no!” I can just hear some of you readers groaning as you read this! And yet, each of the species of insects also has […]

As I’ve written about plants, animals, insects, and humans in community on our interdependent planet Earth, perhaps you can now see that the true nature of our planet Earth is a broad-based community. Everyone and everything thrives by helping each other provide everyone’s and everything’s needs for sustenance. If we didn’t have the plants and […]