See, I am doing something new!—Isaiah 43:19
I always love this passage. How often do we go through our day not realizing that each day is a day unlike any other day. God shouts in each rising sun, “See, I am doing something new!” And this is certainly true with the diversity we see in God’s creation.
I wonder what God must think regarding how we are taking care of the Garden given to us to tend as our first job in Genesis? Fifty-four years ago, the World Synod of Catholic Bishops had some very specific thoughts about the environment in their document, Justicia in Mundo (Justice in the World). Fifty-four years ago, they wrote: “People are beginning to grasp a new and more radical dimension of unity; for they perceive that their resources, as well as the precious treasures of air and water–without which there cannot be life– and the small delicate biosphere of the whole complex of all life on earth, are not infinite, but on the contrary must be saved and preserved as a unique patrimony belonging to all human beings. Are we grasping this fifty-four years later?