Our Contemporary lesson for the third week of the Creation Cycle is about servant leadership, too. We share life from a common Creator. We share life in common with everything created. Wholeness and holiness are utterly related in this shared (consciously or not) in-common-ness.
In the reading for Sunday Wendell Berry writes that we can't know the holiness of life if instead of serving it we 'diminish its possibility.'
"The Bible leaves no doubt at all about the sanctity of the act of world-making (creation), or of the world that was made, or of creaturely or bodily life in this world. We are holy creatures living among other holy creatures in a world that is holy. Some people know this, and some do not. Nobody, of course, knows it all the time…. "The sense of the holiness of life" is not compatible with an exploitive economy. You cannot know that life is holy if you are content to live from economic practices that daily destroy life and diminish its possibility."
Wendell Berry, Berry Behind the Pulpit
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