One of my nephews sagely advised me "When you have worries, just think of
how big the universe is and how small we are and your worries will go
away."
I later told him that I prefered to think how wonderfully powerful and
loving God is that he made all that we see and know, and that makes my
worries go away.
This is not just a cute bit of theologising, but betrays an
unarticulated and probably unconsciously absorbed materialism in the
first statement; the second deals with it, but I'm concerned that we've
so disconnected God and creation (now its God and 'the universe') that
he drifts out of our framing of our experience; thus the importance of
allowing the words of Genesis 1, etc. to confront us, discomforting our
incipient materialism.
