was immediately questioned by my friends about my choice of portraying Stewardship as the Benedictine Hallmark for this task. Unfortunately and probably because, some people sees the hallmark as fairly less religious over others especially the ones focusing on Prayer, Love of others and etc. However, In my perception, I believe that stewardship as a hallmark that deserves equal attention and equal importance and has the same religious or Christian value especially in our condition nowadays; we have been haunted with tremendously destructive disasters, worsening floods and even awaiting extinctions of animals causing biodiversity to collapse; deadly diseases and sicknesses are already becoming a huge threat for humanity because of the imbalances that the Earth unfortunately suffers.
In that sense therefore, we must ask ourselves: How can we really profess love and care for other people if we cannot do the same for the things and creatures that surrounds us- the “other” creations of our God? People have to start reinventing the notion that we are the supreme creatures here in our Earth, that we can just do anything to it and its inhabitants. In addition, we also now have that need to remind ourselves that we are living in an interconnected world: Whatever we do to our nature will have an impact to others and even to ourselves.
"Stewardship is an act of showing humility by removing the concept that we are the 'superior' creatures"
For me, Stewardship is not just professing love and care for God’s creature, it is not just connecting ourselves with nature, but an act of connecting with God as well. Further, stewardship is an act of showing humility by removing the concept that we are the “superior” creatures. Also, It is a form of discipline, listening, obedience and respect to the needs of God’s creation: the Earth and the ones depending on it.
We should also look at stewardship as a practical method by which we can solve our environmental issues. If policies and rules for sustainability won’t work, then we have to alter our values through religion by strengthening the Benedictine Hallmark of stewardship to fix the grass roots of our environmental problem- selfishness and lack of care for the fruits of our Earth that was given by God. Stewardship therefore is a reminder that this Earth is one of the greatest gift that God has given to us and we should be a good care taker of it.
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