As summer turns to fall we continue to celebrate the Season of Creation with Sky Sunday. Today the sky is cloudy from where I sit gazing out my window. Yesterday there was a sunny sky and it made me feel happy to be bouncily walking to my destination to be with friends and colleagues. The sky has many moods and the capacity to set the mood of all who live under its quiet influence. Today’s readings are a grim reminder of the reality that all who live under the same sky don’t receive the same respect. There is much inequality and disrespect for people and for the planet. People from all directions belong to the one human race, who with all aspects of creation, live together as Earth community. No one is over the other, all of us live, move and have our being in the Divine. To live with our whole being “in the sky” is not to be flighty or unpractical. Rather, as eloquently put in a reflection on the Let Creation Praise Website, it is “... to live in alignment with the “heavens,” to be people of the “sky,” is to be people who live their lives in harmony and co-creation with the purposes of God—people for whom the “presence” of God is a source of daily joy and awe. To live this way—by grace—is surely a grace itself.”
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