Last Sunday was a beautiful sunny day with few clouds in the air and temperatures hovering in the mid-70s.

Toward evening, I went to get a couple of hamburgers for dinner at McDonalds.

As I was traveling home, I had perfect timing to see the sun set. The soft yellows and fading reds were breathtaking.

I kept thinking such beauty does not happen by itself. The few scientists, who believe life on earth began from some big bang starting the creation of one cell that somehow evolved over millions of years to life as we all know it in all of its forms, are grossly mistaken. We are not the result of a cosmic accident but of the love of God.

Beauty comes from beauty. Our exquisite life is the handiwork of our loving God. The beauty we see reflects God’s beauty. The world is imbued with God’s grace because all creation has been touched by God’s creative hand. We are the beneficiaries of such magnificence.

As such, we must respect life in all of its forms, particularly human life from moment of conception to moment of natural death. 

May God gives us this grace.

The noun, rumination, means a deep considered thought about something.

-By Deacon Tom Gryzbek