whom God will reconcile with himself “all things [that] were created, in heaven and on earth” (Col 1:14, 16, 20). It does not mean that eventually all things and all people will be reconciled with God, but it does mean that there is a hope and a future for creation as such. In Christ, God does nor save people from the creation but with the creation. At the same time, there is reason to let Christian discourse about creation be colored by the “groaning” of the Spirit. For the Spirit has descended