Gen 1, 20-2, 4. We are reading about the work of creation. The divine persons are actively engaged. Yesterday we heard about the spirit of God, the wind over the waters, the breath hovering over the sea, then entering into it and giving it all life.  We use these words in the Easter vigil when we bless the baptismal water.. That hovering over the waters. That anxious desire to sanctify that water so that it would become for us a life source on earth itself, but the communicating vehicle of our own supernatural life.

Gen 26-27: Let us make man in our image.

This is a break, this is a change of tone, this is like a pause, a moment in which God, the Trinity seems to stop and look at itself, in the plural, each person of the trinity is here intimately involved…

Let them have dominion. Over the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air….

This is the stewardship that God wants us to have for creation, not absolute unbridled control or power. Stewardship of the plants yes, of our environment yes. But there is more.

CCC 307: Though often unconscious collaborators with God's will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings.(Cf. Col 1:24) They then fully become "God's fellow workers" and co-workers for his kingdom.(1 Cor 3:9)

You have given me this responsibility of my world, of my life, of my vocation, of my supernatural family that I’m in. Of the very circumstance that you’ve entrusted me with.. But for that, I cannot be agitated or in inner upheaval. It just won't work.

There is a remarkable passage in the breviary from Diadochus of Photice. Little is known of his life. He lived from around 400 to 485 A.D. Full text is here:

http://blog.adw.org/2016/02/making-a-quiet-place-for-our-lord-this-lent-a-meditation-on-a-teaching-from-diadochus-of-photice/

He talks beautifully about maintaining the stillness of mind in the midst of struggles. Josemaria Escriva said in The Way Silence is the door-keeper of the interior life. (281) Full chapter is here: https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-chapter-12.htm

Music: Adrian Berenguer, Fall, Album Singularity 2017:

https://adrianberenguer.bandcamp.com/album/singularity

For more meditations see my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EricNicolai/videos