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Prayer of Gratitude & Despair: Earth Day
Hear these words of thanksgiving and of lament. Ours be a prayer of gratitude, raising praise for life that sustains and renews, to grace that surrounds and surprises, for the abiding truth: there is no separation between us and the … Continue reading
The Hope of Raspberry Brambles
It’s risky, writing about hope without being in touch with at least some semblance of it, particularly when one aspires to be a minister. My post yesterday for today’s Earth Day was not hope-giving. It was well-crafted. It was articulate. … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, End of the World, Hope
Tagged awake, earth day, environmental love, gardening, hope, Mary Oliver, nature, raspberries, trees
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Earth Day 2015
In the early 1980s, we all lived under the pale of mutual nuclear destruction. Are you, dear reader, old enough to remember? I was in high school then and I took this very personally. While others were out partying, or … Continue reading
Posted in End of the World, Hope, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged 7th principle, commit2respond, complicity, derek jensen, earth day, Edward Everett Hale, Elissa Melamed, environmental activism, Fate of the Earth, forget shorter showers, Great Turning, I am only one but I am one, interdependent web of existence, Joanna Macy, Jonathan Schell, this changes everything
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