God and Nature 1

Is heaven the place where we spend eternity? Is it a good thing to be “left behind”? Could it be that the faithful end up where there’s “weeping and gnashing of teeth”? These questions are not typical for a Bible study. But then again, the first week of God and Nature was not a typical Bible study and Sylvia Keesmaat was not a typical teacher. We spent the week exploring the biblical foundations for an ethic of creation care. Sylvia helped us to read the biblical narrative with new eyes. It was a little disconcerting to discover that texts we had always taken for granted as meaning one thing could in fact be saying something completely opposite. We carried on the tradition of the bedtime story, capping it off with smores around the campfire on the last night. More than anything the class afforded us the time to marvel at God's creation, to see how beautiful His fingerprint is on the created earth.