In the first reading we come to the end of the first of the two Creation stories in Genesis. At the end of each day, God sees all that He has made and that it is very good. On the final day, humanity - both male and female - is created in the very image of God Himself. We call God 'He', yet He contains the qualities of all the genders and elements of both genders are found in all of us. All creation, too, is committed to the stewardship of humankind. Ours is a special role. After several thousand years when, through our special creative abilities, we have added so much to the complexity of human life, there is a terrible danger that the stewards will become destroyers of that world so beautiful, so complex and so good. We have become completely caught up in the wizardry of our creativeness when quality loses out to quantity, when 'to have' becomes more important than 'to be', when to accumulate outweighs the need to share, when the miracle of the natural world becomes a victim of the commercial and industrial world - when landscape will be reduced to a lifeless and barren moonscape. Christians have a huge role to play in restoring the goodness that God set in motion.