Treat the earth with reverence. To pollute this earth is to defile Christ's home. No occupation or vocation is unclean or without dignity as long as we seek to serve this world and the human family with Christlike care. Whether you are a gardener or a trash collector, a technician or a street sweeper, a parent or a priest, your work performed with love has great goodness and significance. See the sacraments echoing all creation's sacredness.
Some spiritual writers see the sacraments only as a cure for a fallen world and a failed humanity.
St. Paul reminds us, however, that all creatures were made through Christ and for Christ and find rich meaning in him. When Christ entered creation at the Incarnation, the whole created world was powerfully blessed. As part of our created world, the sacraments are a foretaste of the fullness of time when Jesus Christ will be all in all. In the water of Baptism, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist and in the oil of Anointing, we celebrate the goodness of creation and the wholeness that is ours in Christ. Embrace your humanity.