What a world you created our Creator God! A world of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms intricately and exquisitely entwined in mutually supporting ecosystems. A world of colour and smell, a world of texture and scale, a world with detail beyond anything we can imagine. A world of such biodiversity!
And into that world you placed us – gifting us food, clean water, medicine and shelter, all courtesy of that abundant biodiversity.
But we lost focus Creator God. We forgot that we were part of your creation, and we used your created to our own ends. We degraded land, destroyed forests, polluted seas, and caused global temperatures to rise. In so many places we broke the intricate ecosystem web and damaged biodiversity. We are sorry for those things, and we are sorry for the damage sustained by your most vulnerable children.
And now we thank you Creator God because it’s not too late for change. We thank you that biodiversity loss can be reversed, and we thank you that when we start to take care of your creation it starts to take care of us. We thank you for your abundant provision!