January 24: The Goodness of Creation
Today in class we started by reviewing and praying the Liturgy of the Hours from the students’ prayer books. It went well, but we’ll need to work on it for a little while. After prayer, we began to discuss our first topic together: the goodness of creation. The students were asked to write Genesis 1:31 in their “Disciple’s Notebook”: ”And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” We began to discuss the creation account in Genesis, and how the story is revolutionary to our fallen world. The ancient people thought that the world was created and ruled by warring spirits, fighting gods, and bad omens. Modern people can sometimes think that the world was created only by chance, randomness, or evolutionary natural selection and mutation. God breaks through these empty explanations and begins by telling us that creation is good. That it has a plan and a purpose. We ran out of time in the midst of this explanation, but we’ll pick things up on Monday. Their homework assignment was to memorize Genesis 1:31.
