Creation: Relationship & Fracture

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

We are back to the Narrative Lectionary, and we kick off this year's journey through the biblical text with a Genesis creation account. In it, humans are created from the earth, for the plants, intrinsically connected to one another, and intimately sculpted and in-spired by God our Maker. Almost as soon as these relationships with earth, humans, and God are crafted, there is fracturing of our primal inter-connectedness. Is there any word of hope for we who are choking on the wildfire smoke of those fractures today? [Sermon begins at 22:55]
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Scripture: Genesis 2.4b-7, 15-17; 3.1-8
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• Woza nomthwalo wakho (Come, bring your burdens to God) - Text & Music: collected by Mairi Munro from the singing of the Mooiplaas congregation, South Africa - © 2008, admin WGRG The Iona Community (Scotland)
• Spirit, working in creation (Hymn to the Spirit) - Text: © 1978, John Richards. Music: attributed to C. F. Witt, Psalmodia Sacra, 1715; adapted by Henry J. Gauntlett, 1861
• Sizohamba naye (We will walk with God) - Text & Music: Swaziland traditional; translated by John L. Bell; transcribed by Swedish Youth Exchange Project, © 2002, WGRG The Iona Community (Scotland), used by permission of GIA Publications, Inc., agent

Other Resources

• Planet of the Clowns, by Bruce Cockburn; sung and played by Michael Bade
• When God Was a Little Girl, by David R. Weiss