Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Created equally...for love

"Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness'...God created humankind in God's image, in the divine image God created them; male and female God created them...God looked at everything created and found it very good."
Genesis 1:27, 31

Needless to say, I prefer this creation story to the one in Genesis Chapter 2--the whole Adam's rib thing. According to author and mystic Cynthia Bourgeault, who is teaching a course I'm taking on Mary Magdalene, can't we just give Adam his rib back and all be equally created by God? But that isn't the main point I want to bring out here. God created us and saw we are good. And we need to hang our hats on that. We are good, God loves what God creates and that should do us all just fine as we go through our lives. Unfortunately, we grew up with the notion that we are inherently sinful and we need to spend our lives making up for that, or worse, that God commanded that Jesus die on the cross to atone for our sins. I grew up with that theory and it never seemed right to me. Why would God be so angry with humans down through history to warrant Jesus dying on the cross to make God like us again? Lucky for me, I have found, through Fr. Richard Rohr, the Franciscans who didn't promote this belief. They believe that Jesus' coming was always Plan A--to show us how to live and that God loves us immeasurably. So, today, as we go about our February Tuesday, let's remember that we are created by God in love, for love and in hope that we will love in return. This close to Valentine's Day there are hearts everywhere...let them remind us of God's immeasurable love! Love, heidi

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