This week, as world leaders meet in Lima, Peru to reach an agreement to save us from devastating climate change, they need to know that we’re holding them in our prayers. We invite you to join with us as we pray for their solidarity to the earth and all of its creatures.
Prayer for Climate Change
By: Jane Deren
Your creative love, O God, brought forth our world,
Once a garden where humans
Could taste and see the goodness of the earth.
But our eyes have been blinded
to the beauty of Creation,
to the knowledge that it is Gift,
one given so that all humans may live and flourish.
Our indifference changes the world;
Even mighty glaciers weep now.
Our disregard for our sisters and brothers
Threatens the very skies above us.
Our passivity begins to choke us, and
The excess of our lifestyles blot out the sun.
Call us to renewal, to stewardship;
Call us to solidarity to the earth and all its creatures.
Give us new vision to see the fragile beauty that remains to us;
Give us new spiritual energy to become active
In loving the world through our daily life;
Give us new voices to speak out for environmental solidarity.
Bless us again with the gift
Of being a joyful community;
Bless us with a love of your Creation
And we will glimpse your Eden once again.
Jane Deren, 2009
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