Dedicated to the Preservation and Restoration of the Whole of Creation: Humans - Animals - Environment
"And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)
(Wild Rose (Rosa Rugosa) - 06) This is another look at the wild rugosa
rose. The rose is one of the flowers that remind us of the way God deals with
sinful human beings. After Adam had disobeyed God (Genesis 3), God told Adam
that his disobedience had cursed the ground and that thorns and thistles would
grow where he had to till the ground to grow food (verses 17 and 18). Nothing
could be thornier than the rugosa rose, but in the midst of all the thorns, God
places these beautiful flowers to remind us of his forgiving grace, if we are
willing to accept it, and to also remind us that as peacemaking children of God
(Matthew 5:9), we can free creation from this curse of corruption (Romans
8:18-23), if we are willing to do so.
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Presented here are just a few of the countless components of God's creation.
Just as we cannot have human and animal life without water and plants, neither
can we have lasting peace without love and compassion. It is our hope and
prayer that this series will motivate people to live and act in a cruelty-free
manner; that we would no longer hurt or destroy each other, the animals or our
environment.