Some Questions
- If every bit of creation is God’s concern (Jonah) where have we been missing him and when we find him who ought we to tell?
- If one of the readings has helped you to identify and recognise a wilderness moment of your own read that passage again. How does your experience help you to understand the passage? How does the passage help you to see your own situation more clearly?
- Select two or three of 'the mysteries of creation' (Job 40-41) which strike you as having most relevance to today or to your life. How do they help your understanding of God and how can you find in them 'the voice of earth’? Are there are one or two you passed over which might also have significance?
Some Activities
- Make a list of things which appear to have no use whatsoever for human beings and then try to see them with the eye of God who created them; try to appreciate them for their own sake, or devote a study group to thinking about such objects and bring specimens.
- Reflect (alone or in a group) on the message of Isaiah 35 in terms of current discussions on the renewal of energy. To what extent are we committed to inherited forms of energy and to what extent is the renewal of energy leading us to think whether God has something entirely new to put before us.
- If recognising the light is so important make a short list of people and groups not normally seen as ‘disciples’ but who seem to you to be pointers to the work and will of God. Share them with your friends and work out what you have been missing.
- Find out all you can abot the Life and Work of John Muir and the John Muir Trust.