(RNS) — Is anyone else tired of being told to use less, waste less and shrink your footprint in a society that seems increasingly built to create more trash? Christians have been taught to think of creation care primarily in terms of reduction, especially reducing our waste. I get why. We look around and see garbage everywhere. But what if creation care looks more like bending our lives back into patterns that mirror and support the cycles of creation as God designed them? My wife and I have three daughters, and we used to dump all our uneaten food into the trash. It felt wrong, but we made a simple shift that changed everything. Our leftover food now goes to our chickens. They will eat it, lay eggs for us and feed the compost pile. The compost pile helps produce vegetables in our garden, which will, in turn, produce more meals and more leftovers so the cycle continues. Now, nobody has to finish what’s on their plate. When you’re full, you’re full. This system we …

(RNS) — Is anyone else tired of being told to use less, waste less and shrink your footprint in a society that seems increasingly built to create more trash? Christians have been taught to think of creation care primarily in terms of reduction, especially reducing our waste. I get why. We look around and see garbage everywhere. But what if creation care looks more like bending our lives back into patterns that mirror and support the cycles of creation as God designed them? My wife and I have three daughters, and we used to dump all our uneaten food into the trash. It felt wrong, but we made a simple shift that changed everything. Our leftover food now goes to our chickens. They will eat it, lay eggs for us and feed the compost pile. The compost pile helps produce vegetables in our garden, which will, in turn, produce more meals and more leftovers so the cycle continues. Now, nobody has to finish what’s on their plate. When you’re full, you’re full. This system we …