Reflection Starter from Blessed Pope John Paul II

"The word of God's revelation is profoundly marked by the fundamental truth that man, created in the image of God, shares by his work in the activity of the Creator and that, within the limits of his own human capabilities, man in a sense continues to develop that activity, and perfects it as he advances further and further in the discovery of the resources and values contained in the whole of creation." - Blessed Pope John Paul II (in his 1981 encyclical letter, Laborem exercens [on Human Work])