09/05/2026
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September 6, 2026
Weekly Meditations for Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost: Proper 18A
and 1st Sunday of Care of Creation
from Season of Creation: A Celebration Guide for Episcopal Parishes 2023
Attributed to Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God, and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God. If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature— even a caterpillar— I would never have to prepare a sermon, so full of God is every creature.
From Morals on the Book of Job, St. Gregory the Great (540-604)
Who may see to the bottom of the marvelous works of Almighty God, how God made all things of nothing, how the very framework of the world is arranged with a marvelous mightiness of power, and the heaven hung above the atmosphere, and the earth balanced above the abyss, how this whole universe consists of things visible and invisible, how God created humanity, so to say, gathering together in a small compass another world, yet a world of reason; how constituting this world of soul and flesh, God mixed the breath and the clay by an unsearchable disposal of God’s Might? A part, then, of these things we know, and a part we even are. Yet we omit to admire them, because those things which are full of marvels for an investigation deeper than we can reach, have become cheap from custom in the eyes of people. Hence it comes to pass that, if a dead man is raised to life, all people spring up in astonishment. Yet every day one that had no being is born, and no one wonders, though it is plain to all, without doubt, that it is a greater thing for that to be created, which was without being, than for that which had being, to be restored. Because the dry rod of Aaron budded, all were in astonishment; every day a tree is produced from the dry earth, and the virtue residing in dust is turned into wood, and no one wonders. Because five thousand men were filled with five loaves, all were in astonishment that the food should have multiplied in their teeth; every day the grains of seed that are sown are multiplied in a fullness of ears, and no one wonders. All wondered to see water once turned into w**e. Every day the earth’s moisture being drawn into the root of the vine, is turned by the grape into w**e, and no one wonders. Full of wonder then are all the things which we never think to wonder at, because they are by habit become dull to the consideration of them.
From “Our Relationship with Creation,” Br. Keith Nelson, SSJE
When we violate, abuse, exploit, or even simply ignore non-human creatures, we are rejecting a core dimension of our humanity and of God’s calling for us. We are crucifying the earth. We are interrupting, speaking over, or bickering with God’s gentle language of love, in which each creature is like a syllable of the living Word. Each creature is an instance of Divine Gift, God’s gift to Godself, the love language of the Trinity. We believe God became a Creature in Jesus Christ and redeemed Creation from the inside out so that we creatures can participate directly in this infinite pattern of God’s giving-and-receiving.
St. Birgitta (1303-1373), Revelation to Birgitta
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the 95 Season of Creation 2023 gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
from The Edge of the Enclosure
Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth – that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then divine providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred and which no man could have dreamed would have come their way.
-William Hutchinson Murray 1913-1996
