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Design Your Own
Creation Devotional Booklet:

"Wonder and Thanks for God’s Creation: Embodied Meditations for Genesis 1-2:4"

Introduction and Instructions:

Dear friends,

Recently, a local Seattle church (Plymouth Congregational) decided that they wanted to design a booklet that would help to evoke a sense of "wonder and thanks for God’s Creation" as they prepared for Thanksgiving. The church chose to arrange the booklet around the creation account in Genesis 1-2:4. For each day of the week prior to Thanksgiving, individuals and families used the booklet’s meditations, readings, prayers, and simple activities selected for each "day of creation" as found in the Genesis verses. Each day ended with a "growing prayer" (one that builds each day), and the week ended with the crescendo of a communal creation-care, worship service.

We invite you to design a similar devotional booklet (for Thanksgiving, Earth Day, Lent, or any other occasion for creation-care focus in your church) for individuals, families, and/or church groups. To assist you, we are providing material from which you might chose and, possibly, supplement with material you create or draw from other sources. (The use and reproduction of these materials is limited to individuals and groups associated with church congregations and may not be sold for a profit.)

Under each "day of creation" you will find a theme (in bold letters) along with related meditations, readings, prayers, and simple activities. Please feel free to "cut and paste" these for your own use. We encourage you also to write your own introduction, based on the event or theme around which the booklet is to be used.

We hope that you will find that this collection helps you and others to better explore the nature of human relationships with God and God’s entire family of creation. May this exploration lead to deeper awe and thanks for creation – a foundation for caring for creation – and awe and thanks for the Creator.

Sincerely, Tanya Marcovna Becker, Program Associate with Earth Ministry

"Days of Creation:" Creation Themes and Related Meditations to "Cut and Paste":

Day One: Light, Dark, and the Wind from God