One of the youth went up to the fallen tree and took a piece of it home. At the risk of being called a congregation of tree-huggers, I want you to experience this part of the earth with your hands, your eyes, your nose, your feelings. I want us to be connected to the ground out of which we came and remember that we are connected in a profound way with the world and the entire creation. Well they do. They talk to each other, and they ll talk to you if you listen.
Trouble is, white people don t listen.
There are two creation stories in Genesis. The first one is where God creates the world in six days and then rests on the seventh. We all know this one. It s familiar. Creation begins as God brings order out of the primordial soup.