How Firm a Foundation

This is Earth Week! Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of Earth Week, and so we want to spend the week highlighting God’s amazing creation! One of the most spectacular things I’ve been able to show Wren was the Milky Way. When we were in Utah last summer, we went out into Canyonlands National Park (one of the darkest skies in the US) to watch the sunset and the stars emerge.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:3-9

What an awesome blessing that we have been asked to care for this amazing creation! Earth Week is a great time to think about how we are living out this call! This Earth Week is giving us a unique opportunity. We are all being forced to live more simply and more slowly. Scientists are already noticing changes – carbon emissions are down, light pollution is decreased, air quality is increased…and I’m sure there are other less-obvious benefits. Things we haven’t thought to measure yet. I know scientists are measuring changes in the soundscape, and I’ve noticed slight changes in animal behavior! Living out this “shelter-at-home” lifestyle might just help us see the ways we can change our impacts on creation through our consumption of resources! Creation will benefit if we see how we can maintain these changes.

Wren’s hymn of comfort tonight is How Firm a Foundation. We were thinking about the stars today before she recorded, so you might hear a little Twinkle sneak it’s way into what she played…