Together with all living things, you share the breath of life, participating in the same cycles of birth and death, reproduction and recycling and renewal. You, with them, are part of the story of creation – different branches on the tree of life. In that story you are connected and related to everything everywhere.

In fact, that is a good partial definition of God: God is the one through whom we are related and connected to everything.

p. 8, being human: alive in the story of creation; We make the road by walking, Brian D. McClaren