Mother Nature

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens! — read the full passage →

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? — read the full passage →

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. — read the full passage →

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness! — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches. — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, — read the full passage →

“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. — read the full passage →

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

She said to her, “All that you say I will do.” — read the full passage →

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. — read the full passage →

I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue. — read the full passage →

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. — read the full passage →