“By the word of the Lord the Heavens were made;. . . .” (Ps. 33: 6)
How’s your imagination? Have you ever imagined God speaking words at the beginning of creation–especially the creation of our Earth? I imagine God completing the planet Earth and then saying, “Tilt.”
We are approaching the summer solstice on June 21. For us in the northern hemisphere, as we continue our revolution around the sun, we will be ‘tilted’ toward the sun and will feel its warmth. The ‘tilt’ of the Earth is what gives us our seasons and so because of the ‘tilt’ of 23.4 degrees of Earth’s pole, we will have the longest day of the year. In other words, Earth’s northern hemisphere will begin the season summer.
As summer begins in the northern hemisphere we can honour human consciousness and rejoice with the British at the 5000 year old monument at Stonehenge.
-Sister Elaine Cole, csj
Image: Unsplash/Philip Mackie