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5th week in Ordinary Time

Today is Tuesday the 11th of February in the 5th week of Ordinary Time.    The Porter’s Gate with Molly Parden and Jonathan Ogden sing, ‘The Promise’; a song that speaks of creation coming to life through love. How does this song speak to you today?     This gift you gave from the beginning 
 Warm light, dry land, blue water brimming 
 And more, from the earth there came a growing 
 From seed to bloom, all the while you were sowing  It was love, love given in the water 
 And peace, God's peace written in the letters 
 Of the earth, God's earth, given with a promise 
 Can we keep it 
 Can we keep it  And stars in the night to gaze on them kindly 
 Great light, cool moon, all aligned in the sky, see 
 From water came life and so from the land 
 To feed, not to fight, to stand hand in hand  It was love, love given in the water 
 And peace, God's peace, given in the sunshine 
 And the earth, God's earth, given with a promise 
 Can we keep it  Out from the silence I hear a voice, I follow it onwards 
 You whisper to me, I am reminded of every gift you gave  
So, spirit lead me unto the waters, unto the earth you made  
Teach me the secret to ever care for, to look after it  It was love, love given in the water  
And peace, God's peace written in the letters  
Of the earth, God's earth, given with a promise 
 Can we keep it 
 Can we keep it  Today’s reading is from the Book of Genesis. Today, we will only hear the scripture read once...    Genesis 1:20-2:4   And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.’ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.  And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.  Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’ 
So God created humankind in his image, 
   in the image of God he created them; 
   male and female he created them. 
God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ God said, ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.’ And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.  These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.      The passage for today invites us to enter into imaginative prayer, using our senses to encounter our crea