In this age of the new cosmology when scientists are showing us how interconnected
all created being really is, how dependent upon the earth we are, we know the wisdom of these words, and these of Hildegard, a most remarkable woman of the 12th century:

    God has arranged all things in the world
    In consideration of everything else.

We are not alone! We are not isolated beings, anonymous beings in an alien, hostile world; we are part of the universe, we carry in our very bodies the stuff of the stars as Brian Swimme says, and thus our prayer rises from the earth itself, from the universe, from the Incarnate Christ.  Our joys and our sufferings are the joys and the sufferings of the universe.  The joys and the sufferings of the beings on the earth are ours as well.  Our lives have cosmic dimensions, whether we know it or not.

Since you are one with the universe, since you are OF the universe, and more than that since you are the Christ, everything you do affects the whole world, the universe. Every act of love affects Iraq.

John of the Cross knew this:
    A little of this pure love is more precious to God. . . and of more     benefit to the Church, even though  it seems to be doing nothing, than all     those     other works put together. (C.29.2)
        
And Iain Matthew goes on: John learned that from Jesus. And Jesus taught him the nature of that love.  That “pure love” may bring radiant elation. On the other hand it may feel as rough as a splintered cross-beam. It may come as dryness, darkness, the over-exacting demand not to renege on one’s integrity.  If it does, John says, know that you are not alone, and that you are helping to save the world.
                (The Impact of God, by Iain Matthew p. 131)

Matthew Fox in a recent book said this;  “ What did the universe have in mind in spending fourteen billion years of work to bring me(you). . .to be here? Now? “ (Creativity p22)

Or perhaps we can put it this way:  What does God have in mind, in having the universe spend 14 billion years of work to bring you to be here in this place now?

One of the fundamental laws of the universe is to know who, in fact, we are.  This is, according to Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, the law of interiority.