CREATION AND RECREATION

From Summer 2009

It's that time again. Time for re-creation in our lives. It's our celebration of the Sabbath, Father's Day, Trinity Sunday and, as well, Summer officially starts this week. Two Summers ago the Journey class spent time on the pond at the Dortch's (as the pictures attest)  and we're doing it again this Sunday 19 June, Lord permitting.

For our study, we will be looking at Psalm 8, that glorious passage that refers to God's majesty, creation, and our place and responsibility as part in it. What does it mean that God is mindful of us? And what does that say about our mindfulness of others? What role does the act of recreation play in these issues? 

Psalm 8
8:1 O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

8:2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.

8:3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;

8:4 what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

8:5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor.

8:6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet,

8:7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

8:8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

8:9 O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Walter Morton for Journey Across the Line