Care for God's good creation

As the days begin to turn away from darkness towards light, it seems a good time to revisit the story of the first ever such light. Here a part of how black American poet James Weldon Johnson saw it happen:

And God stepped out on space,

And he looked around and said:

I'm lonely-

I'll make me a world.

And far as the eye of God could see

Darkness covered everything,

Blacker than a hundred midnights

Down in a cypress swamp.

Then God smiled,

And the light broke,

And the darkness rolled up on one side,

And the light stood shining on the other,

And God said: That's good!

Then God …