“Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”
Question for Meditation: How can you live your vocation to be a protector of God’s handiwork?
“The most fundamental law is to recognise that we share the planet with other beings, and that we have a duty to care for our common home.”
Question for Meditation: How do you exercise this duty?
“Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I’m happy with that.”
Question for Meditation: What gift can you use “to the highest degree possible”?
“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to give thanks for?
“Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.”
Question for Meditation: What should you do with your fellow pearls?
“Look at My works! See how beautiful they are—how excellent! For your sake I created them all. See to it that you do not spoil and destroy My world; for if you do, there will be no one else to repair it.”
Question for Meditation: What can you give to the world to conserve and repair it?”
“God didn’t give you your light only to sit on it.”
Question for Meditation: What did God give you your light for?
“Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.”
Question for Meditation: What does gratitude call you to?
“God called the dry land ‘earth,’ and the basin of water he called ‘sea.’ God saw that it was good.”
Question for Meditation: What good do you see in God’s creation today?
“Gratitude is most powerful as a response to the Earth because it provides an opening to reciprocity, to the act of giving back, to living in a way that the Earth will be grateful for us.”
Question for Meditation: How can you make the Earth grateful to you?
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