Sunday, April 29, 2007

#6

“we belong and do not belong to nature”
-Making Nature Sacred

I wrote briefly earlier about the temporary nature of the flesh, however there are other ways that we are and aren’t of the earth. In the Bible God makes man of the earth, in this obvious physical way we are immediately related to the earth. We are also related to the earth in a way that we too were made. We are separated from the earth however in that God breathed into us and set man apart. This belonging and not belonging to the earth is a confusing idea to me and it makes me wonder if it is this that makes us always at odds with the earth. Man constantly seems to be struggling to find his place in relationship to the earth and therefore he often corrupts and destroys and damages the earth. Perhaps if man could find a better way to relate to the earth he would stop being so confused about whether or not he is of or not of the earth.

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