Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything
in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see
and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.
Colossians 1:15-17
I was recently reading a devotion by Father Richard Rohr. He is a deep and sensitive thinker and I like his work and his thinking. He was talking about how we tend to differentiate between the “sacred and the profane” things in life. His argument is that such differences are arbitrary. Essentially, all of life is sacred.
I had written in the past some similar ideas. What we consider “profane” is just our own aversion to certain places or things, or even people. What God has created is sacred. What we do with that creation marks it as honoring or dishonoring, but all of creation is sacred.
The rationale for that is the idea that God is in all of his creation. Not that we worship things, or worship the creation more than the Creator, but if God created it, doesn’t it contain his life-giving Spirit?
I have expressed my view in the past that creation was the expression of God’s infinite energy – that original “Big Bang” if you will. We cannot fully understand that creation, but we know that the universe is still expanding, and that there are things, such as “dark energy”, which scientists really still don’t grasp.
God’s creation is held together by him in ways we will never understand. But if we believe that it is only through the power of Christ’s Spirit that all things consist, as Paul suggests above, then we cannot really decide what is holy and what is profane. Indeed, we should simply honor all of God’s creation.
Prayer: Lord, we honor your creation and thank you for the gift of life, Amen
Reflections of a Counselor 