the sixth day

God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1)

The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today take us back to Genesis and creation. After six days of creation God declares the result as “very good”. What would the assessment of the Creator be today? The psalmist proclaims the great mystery of the interest of the Divine in humanity. The witness of those living today in an intimate relationship with the Divine through the indwelling Spirit is that Providence continues to provide life, creativity and challenge to humanity. The rest on the seventh day is necessary for humans but the work of creation and recreation continues. Humanity is a key builder in the unfolding of events in the temporal universe. The Gospel of Mark points out one of the tendencies of humanity to misshape, spin, distort and alter for personal gain the traditions and practices which originally were to assist all people in working toward better relationships with one another. The “spin doctors” are always at work. The popular revolution becomes a terrorist take over when the economic interests in control of wealth are at play. Mark relates how Jesus saw it. We can see it by looking today toward Egypt.