THE FUTURE GENERATIONS RECONNECTION WITH GOD’S CREATION
By Brian Onali NDUW “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). In Genesis 1:31, “God saw all that He had made, and it was very good” . Today. We are training our children to fear and dominate the natural world instead of cherishing it as God’s gift. Our children are learning that much of creation is dirty, dangerous, or disposable. How can we rewrite this harmful narrative? The crisis of disconnection In our cities and towns, children are growing up in an artificial world. A world where nature is treated as an intruder. Children scream at house lizards. Instead of marvelling at their God-given design. Cockroaches are sprayed. Dandelions are uprooted. Mud is seen as “dirty.” We do it without explaining that every insect has a purpose in our Creator’s plan. Across our continent, urbanization is severing the sacred bond between young souls and the soil that sustains them. Through these ...