The Divine Works 2

Picking up on the hint from Gearing, one way to meditate on the divine works would be simply to meditate on what God created on the six days of creation. That is

Day one when God created light and dark
Day two when God created the sky
Day three when God created dry land, seas, plants and trees
Day four when God created the sun, moon and stars
Day five when God created creatures that live in the sea and creatures that fly
Day six when God created animals that live on the land and humans, made in the image of God

And so one could meditate on

• Day and night and light and dark
• The sky, including its major layers - the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere.
• The land and the sea and the various plants and trees that grow in and on them. There are various ways of dividing up plants, eg ferns, mosses, gymnosperms and flowering plants or Herbs, Shrubs, Trees, Climbers and Creepers.
• The sun, moon and planets and stars and comets. In our solar system the terrestrial planets we call Mercury, Venus, Eart  and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
• Creatures that live in the sea and creatures that fly. As for sea creatures, one can think of sea reptiles, like turtles; fish; sharks and rays; cephalopods, crustaceans and other shellfish; corals and invertebrates; marine mammals, like seals.
• As for birds, examples include Crow, Dove, Sparrow, Woodpecker, Owl, Eagle, Hen, Parrot, Raven, Stork, Swan, Quail, Pelican, Kingfisher.
• Animals that live on the land and human beings, made in the image of God. Land animals include reptiles and many different mammals. These include rodents, such as rats, mice, squirrels and voles; insectivores, such as hedgehogs, moles and shrews; carnivores, such as foxes, badgers, otters, pine martens, stoats, weasels and polecats; lagomorphs, ie rabbits, brown hares and mountain hares; deer, including red deer, fallow deer, roe deer and muntjac; other mammals including bats, etc.
• To think about human beings one can focus on parts such as the eye or the ear or the hand and how God has made them. The fact we are body and soul is fascinating.