by Christyl Rivers

Created on: October 27, 2010

If humans have flaws, and we think they do, the most likely one we fall prey to is self destruction by our own arrogance.  Perhaps the reason the first commandment is to have no other God before the Almighty God, is that we tend to make up stuff and believe it.  We are in our minds, treating ourselves as something special due to our ponderous thoughts.  

We need to get back to basics. If you want to believe in something, look at the creation.  God calls us in the gentle of the breeze, and the roar of the storm. There is the majesty of the mountains, and the folds of the green and life giving land.  There is the floating butterfly and the soar of the eagle. There is the sweeping of the shore by little wavelets and the powerful force of the whole ocean carving shorelines.  Get out of your tiny little head, and go see what the creation really offers, it is renewal, sustenance, joy, and beauty.

If you have not been in the forest and known it as a sacred cathedral, if you have not felt beads of sweat upon your brow as you gain the upper reaches of a jutting crag that lights up as a jewel beneath the sun, and if you have not lain down in a grassy meadow and watched angel white clouds, you are living in your mind, and not in the granduer and display that is God revealed in Nature.

We are in danger of losing connection with all that God is and all that God loves, because for millions upon millions of years all this awesome grandeur was here for no other reason than the creation is right in, and of itself.  God does not need us, we need God.  It does  not matter which faith, and which interpretation of holy scripture you follow, God and God's voice is out there in Nature.  Why would God have Nature in motion swirling galaxies for light years across the heavens if what really mattered was your tiny little thought of argument, hate, and dogma that has little of nothing to do with the grand scheme of Love and beauty that dawns each day, all around us in the Universe?

The laws of God are nature's laws.  They are wise beyond our human reckoning.  We are small, with much to learn, but we have good advice to follow.  Cherish, love, and protect all that are smaller, and greater, than yourselves, and in loving every leaf, every feather, every puff of cloud, and every life giving web that allows you to live and breathe.  We are all on the same "ark" of earth, and only when we love and follow the attractions of nature, gravity, beauty, senses of hunger, thirst, desire, and so much, much more, can we know how to love all living things, to love one another, and to therefore Love God.  It is both commandment, and natural law.

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