God sends a raven. A most unholy bird, a dirty bird, an eater of carrion, of rotting flesh. Raven will put food in Elijah s mouth. In any case these creatures may remind us of a miracle. Each God-given day, creaturely humankind is tended by sister mother earth and companioned by all God s creatures.
All creation is attuned to the human project for good and ill.
If we read Hosea, we find God listening carefully to the testimony of the earth, because it sees and feels what the people will not. What creation suffers and says is a witness against a people s destructiveness. Let us ask the drugged and weary farmlands. Ask the savaged forests. Ask the three cod left off the coast of Newfoundland.