We find ourselves in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, considering a primary responsibility of God's creation -- responsibility for what God has done for us. After creating us and a wide variety of living creatures, giving all the command to increase and multiply, God turns our attention to all that is around us, all that we are "in" -- his created world. We are called to "steward" his creation by his empowering us to have dominion over all living creations.
As we draw closer to the days when from the earth we shall see springing up much new life in the world of flowers and plants. Many forests come alive again in the many shapes and forms of green. What has been entrusted to us by our God has been ignored by some. Others see and fulfill God's expectations of us: a conscientious care and respect for our fellow human beings as well as all that lives and breathes on this planet we call earth. And so? What has been my response to this challenge to care for God's created world? Consider how many mock and ridicule those who have taken up the banner to defend anything "green," anything, any effort to "steward" the earth God placed in our care actually for our own well being.
