Creation does not define God. Creation points us toward God.
Does the amazing diversity of creation express the love of God?

The diversity of creation must include creation in its entirety.
Today’s Advent thought considers whether all encounters with God that we have leave us ‘leaping for joy’. Looking to encounters such as the transfiguration shows that such experiences may also be shocking, terrifying, confusing or even concerning.

If we look on the whole of creation as an expression of God’s love then how is that being expressed in the sting of the wasp, or the kill of the great white shark, the short life of the butterfly, or the devastation tornado?

How do the confusing, startling, surprising, painful sides of the creation point us toward God?