God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Our first reading today is a continuation of the creation account, part of which we heard yesterday. And it is striking to note that after each creative act, God looked at what had been created and found it to be very good. And underneath the goodness of creation to which the Scripture attests is the vocation of the human person. The human person has been called to be a co-creator with God. And to help us reflect on the vocation of the human person is a concept that we find in one of the great theologians of the Church, St. Bonaventure. St. Bonaventure holds that creation is a river that flows from God and returns to God. In this flow of creation, humanity holds a special place because it is their task to lead creation back to God. The human person is able to do this because of two reasons: he/she has been created in the image and likeness of God, and two, because God put them in charge of creation, as we have heard in our reading today. The river of creation is able to flow back to its creator because there are traces of the divine Creator in creation. The human person is thus able to lead creation back to God because he/she can perceive the image of the creator in the created world. In other words, the human person is able to discern the sacredness of creation. 
There is another non-Bonaventurian reason why the human person has the vocation of leading creation back to God. It comes from Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical, On Social Concern. According to the Pope, the human person can only live up to this task when he/she retains the image and likeness of God with which he/she was gifted at creation. In other words, the human person can only be able to recognize the sacred nature of creation if he/she has retained the “God” in him/her. As such, only with the eye of God, so to speak, can the human person be able to treat God’s creation with care.