~by Susi Pittman

No matter how small any part of creation may be, it is still witness to the omnipotent power of God at work. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

You see, the created world is divinely ordered as it exists in the natural realm. The shading of the creative integrity and direction given creation by the Father, the minute detailed perfection by which all of creation enters and exits the world through the Son and the sustaining of order of one thing to another in keeping harmony in the universe through the Holy Spirit, tells us that traces of the Trinity are at work at all times in creation.

Creation is ordered to be and function in a specific way. It behaves with a specific regularity. The sun rises and it sets; a dog barks and a cow moo’s; the tree loses its leaves in the fall and regains them again in the spring. God moves all things according to their natures. There is a divine intelligence at work in the world of nature.

God is infinite goodness. Such goodness demands that what it has created is directed to perfection. It would contradict divine providence to picture God abandoning the created world. God is infinite intelligence and has executed a plan for the universe to its minutest detail from His infinite wisdom and power. The finger of God writes His directions in the very fibers of creation.

It is sad to see when men become so arrogant that they haul God up before a human court to discredit Him. God is soon named an “intruder” in a self-sufficient world. Science becomes the new religion. Science doesn’t make the laws, it discovers the laws. New discoveries in these laws within the universe and under the sea are being made every day. But, the laws in the natural realm were placed there by God.

No one thing in creation is the cause of creation’s order. It does not exist for itself anymore than it could possibly exist from itself. The whole of creation exists as a loan from God.

It is time that we as His subordinate governors of creation acknowledge this gift with love, concern, protection and conservation. Our good works will be a sign of love to God and to the divine reverence of all that He has created.

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Susi Pittman is founder of CatholicStewardsofCreation.com and Owner-President of Twin Oaks Publishing; she is author of Animals in Heaven? Catholics Want to Know!; an advocate for the Florida Catholic Conference; a member of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Council of Women in Jacksonville, Florida; an Associate of the Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Augustine;a member of the Florida Publishers Association, Independent Book Publishers Association, the National Association of Professional Women, the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States and the National Audubon society.