God's Eye
God pours light into all things—everything is holy. Everything teaches us more about the God who created us. Why would be put ourselves and our selfish desires—willfulness that does not fulfill God’s call to us as co-creators—ahead of that which brings us closer to the Creator? The diverse ways God is present to us calls us to do more. As Richard Rohr, in “Christ Since the Beginning,” points out through Ilia Delio’s words, “ We are created to read the book of creation so that we may know the Author of Life. ” Delio echoes Aquinas as well, something Rohr also points out and connects: “ God brought things into being in order that God’s goodness might be communicated to creatures, and be represented by them; and because that goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple a...