Praying for the World January 5, 2026 Issue

A divine blueprint for environmental stewardship

Learning from our spiritual and eternal origin, God, can drive the transformation so needed in our care for the earth.

Kim Crooks Korinek

Nature teaches humanity of God’s sustaining love in so many ways—in the rooted connectivity of aspen trees, the consistent succession of the seasons, the synchronicity of a starling murmuration, and innumerable other forms. “All nature teaches God’s love to man . . .” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 326) and points to the divine intelligence that is its creator. The Bible gives us a divine blueprint that outlines a fresh and sustainable approach to nature, encouraging us to listen to and learn from our spiritual and eternal origin, God. This is what can drive the transformation so needed in our care for the earth.

“Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind” (Job 12:7–10).

So God holds all things in His hand as the only cause or Principle of existence—the one, infinite Mind. God causes the cycles of eternal life that renew, replenish, and multiply the fruits of the earth’s ecosystems. This is reflected in the wholeness of those ecosystems.

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