Co-Creators: We can do it.

Pope Francis has said some startling things in his homilies. One of the most startling is that disciples  can choose to be “co-creators” of the world with God our Creator and Lord.  

    That, the pope admitted, stretches the meaning of “creator,” of course. God creates out of absolutely nothing, and God creates with love and in love, shaping empty chaos into order and beauty. We can only do the next good thing with what God has given us in our time and place—our gifts, abilities, opportunities, companions.

Still, God is always acting in us, creating us and shaping us in the pattern  of our loving Redeemer. We are always acting in God and with God.

We can’t create out of nothing, but we can still choose to be like our Creator. We can do the next good thing out of love and with love, filling at least my part of the world with love.  Doing that, we are true “co-creators” with our God. 

Fr. Joe Tetlow, S.J.