All the creation is related to its Creator.

“God who
made the world, and everything in it, is the Lord of
heaven and earth” (Acts 17:24). The beginning of the
Christian view of nature, is the concept of creation
that God was there before the beginning, and God
created everything out of nothing. The true Christian
mentality is that everything rests upon the reality of
creation-out-of-nothing by God. All things, including
man, are equal in their origin, as far as creation is
concerned.
 God creates all things, and He alone is Creator.
Everything else is created. Only He is Infinite, and only He
is the Creator; everything else is the creature and finite.
Only He is independent; everything else is dependent. So
man, the animal, and the flower, in the biblical viewpoint
are equally separated from God, in that He created them
all. It is from this dependent state of creation that we can
talk about its integrity, or wholeness.
 The failure to recognise that the disintegration of
creation is the result of a broken relationship with
God, can only lead us away from the central passage of
the Bible, which is about salvation, and the glory of
God. The restoration of mankind, and the rest of
creation, is only accomplished through the restoring
work of the cross of Christ. And according to scripture,
this “integrity” of creation is an eschatological
expectation.
 Pope Francis
launched the
encyclical “Laudato
Si’, on Care for our
Common Home”. It
is considered to be
the most important
document
published by a pope
in the past 120 years.
Laudato Si’ widens
the church’s
perspective even
further because it
embraces all
creation.
 Pope Francis used the term
“integral ecology” in Laudato Si’.
He places human beings right at
the heart of creation. He points
out, “A good part of our genetic
code is shared by many living
beings.” He also reminds us, “We
are part of nature, included in it.”
He adds, “We are not faced
with 2 separate crisis, one
environmental and the other
social but rather with one
complex crisis which is both
social and environmental.”
As human beings we should assume our responsibilities as
caretakers of creation. As creatures of this world, we have the right to
enjoy life and endowed with unique dignity but it is also our duty to
take care of our home that was created by God for us to live in.
 Pope Francis, perturbed that “the earth, our home, is beginning
to look more and more like and immense pile of filth.” He endorses the
statement of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: ”For human beings …
to destroy the biological diversity of God’s creation; for humans beings
to degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate,
by stripping wetlands; for human beings to contaminate the earth’s
waters, its land, its air and its life – these are sins.” Science has a role to
play in the conversation about the future of the world but so does our
Christian faith.
 Pope Francis has called for urgent action to stop climate change and
proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional Christian
works of mercy such as feeding the hungry and visiting the sick. “We should not
think that our efforts- even our small gestures – don’t matter.” he said. “Virtue,
including ecological virtue, can be infectious.”
The Pope ends the chapter with reference to Jesus who embodies the
tenderness, the contemplative awareness, the in-touch-ness with nature an
people, the wonder and awe before God’s gifts, and the reconciliation that the
Creator so desires for all Creation.
 The Church is a witness in the world to total integration
in the future, and to what a covenant relationship with God
means. The aftermath of that relationship on creation is also
both present and future. God’s calling to the church is that,
we should exhibit a substantial healing, here and now,
between man and nature, and nature and itself, as far as
Christians can bring it pass on.
Given this firm basis, the church can participate in God’s
restorative work, and itself, be an example of creation
reintegrating, in the form of proper stewardship, in
anticipation of God’s own complete restorative work.