…all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day
when God will reveal who his children really are.
Against its will,
all creation was subjected to God’s curse.
But with eager hope,
the creation looks forward to the day
when it will join God’s children
in glorious freedom from death and decay.
For we know that all creation has been groaning
as in the pains of childbirth
right up to the present time.
