God is the God of the entire cosmos; God has to do with every creature, and every creature has to do with God, whether they recognize it or not.

[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them prior to the development of specific ideas about creation.

[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.

God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the "new" into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity.

[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.