As we walk the long timeline of creation, we find that the truths of sacred scripture are interwoven with those of contemporary science, to enrich our understanding of our common home. God is the author of both the book of scriptures and the book of nature. If you find God in small things you will be more able to find God on the macro-level. A feather, a leaf, a drop of water, a single breath – any tiny and passing thing can open a window onto the divine. The eighteenth-century botanist Linnaeus noted that ‘nature is most to be marveled at in the smallest of creatures.’ Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, 2015, says that nature is ‘a continuing revelation of the divine’ (LS, 85). When you accept this fact the everyday world around you is transfigured and life becomes a song of gratitude.

Excerpted from Creation Walk: The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet by Brian Grogan

(P.15)