Prayer for the Week of December 19, 2022 - Prayer for the Earth
Wisdom, as we turn toward the solstices, those halfway points between equinoxes, the deepening of winter or summer, depending on the hemisphere in which we live, may we pay extra attention to our climate choices and how we care for this earth on which we make our homes. Suffering increases as the climate warps and is pushed beyond what we have knowing, tools, and resources for handling well. Teach us to be more gracious with one another, to share resources more equitably, to condemn those withholding heat or cooling, water or food as tools of political control. Invite us, as we celebrate the return of summer or the return of winter, the apogee of blessed day or blessed night in our year, to tend with compassion and diligence to the ecosystems where we live, the little ecologies in neighborhoods and regions, the microclimates and the zones of thriving and the zones of struggle. May we choose generosity and compassion, and grow in wisdom facing this changing climate, this changing world even as we find the wheel of the year turning in what we want to be, but find increasingly, unfamiliar rhythm. Wisdom, may we rejoice in the blessings of the longest night or the longest day, and remembering each day the gifts of being, work to heal and repair our climate and world equitably, for justice, for the future, and for love’s sake. Amen.
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