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Good morning. Students take to the streets again to protest on behalf of our planet and the next generation. They are demanding a shift in attitudes of indifference; a revolution in social practice, and systemic change across all institutions. Their epithets are of end-time: the planet is dying. tomorrow is too late. Lethal carbon emissions must halt before the air is poisoned to death, and catastrophic fires and floods ravage habitats, communities, livelihoods.  It’s Fifty years ago, since 18-year olds first got to vote at a by election. The irony is not lost on our 18 year olds, how little they have been able to dent the iron-cage of global economic and political systems. Progress has been been glacially slow and now the icecaps are melting. They are challenging the nay-sayers - just whose evidence is airy-fairy?; grounding their vision in research based analysis: unless our economies and eco-systems survive together we all perish separately. My prayers this weekend turn to Dunblane as communities remember the 16 children and their teacher, slaughtered by a lone gun-man, reliving the day they lost their next generation. Out of that devastation, the Snowflake Campaign on l was born – advocating for gun-control and ensuring new protective laws, a broken community, acting in hope to save other lives.God of our lives, today may we bear witness to your care for creation, by opening our minds and hearts to the cry of the earth and the cry of your suffering people. Teach us by your grace to walk your way of justice, peace and abundant life for all, Amen