Each creature God made
Must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
~ by Mechtild of Magdeburg
Just as God speaks to us through the words of scripture, so God speaks to us through the elements of creation. The cosmos is like a living sacred text that we can learn to read and interpret. Just as we prayerfully ponder the words of the Bible in Christian practice, and as other traditions study their sacred texts, so we are invited to listen to the life of creation as an ongoing, living utterance of God.