God made it. God loves it. God cares for it.

Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century mystic-theologian who maybe understood the belovedness of creation and new creation better than anyone. In the fifth chapter of her book Revelations of Divine Love, she describes a moving vision about the created world:

In this vision he also showed me a little thing, the size of a hazel nut in the palm of my hand, and it was as round as a ball. I looked at it with my mind’s eye and thought, “What can this be?” And the answer came to me, “It is all that is made." I wondered how it could last, for it was so small I thought it…