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10/09/2020

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Venerable Dr Rosemarie Mallett.

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Thu 10 Sep 2020 05:43

Prayer for the Day

Good morning,
As I look out on to my back garden and聽 listen to my early morning visitors, I am treated to the riotous screams of flocks of green winged parakeets, and the caw-caw of a raven black family of crows. The interweaving of calls and colours herald the way in which creation and cultures can intersect, despite the differences.
In the Church of England, the beginning of autumn is the start of the season of Creationtide when we take time to think about how we can care better for nature. At the beginning of the lockdown period, it felt as if the earth could at last exhale from all the traffic related pollution. However, over the past 6 months of full and partial lockdown, the world has moved on from a sense of astounding tranquillity back to, in the city and suburbs at least, overfull roads and some overflying planes.聽
聽As I continue to enjoy the abundance of nature locally, I know that in some parts of the world creation is聽 groaning, reeling from too much or too little water, from dry land and parched fields, from a rapacious land clearance in the global south which is driving many off the land and sea and into poverty The intersection of climate and racial and social justice meet in the reality of their difficulties and challengesCreator God, help us to care for all of your created order, and love it as we love ourselves. And work to transform the world, into a place that meets the needs of all its inhabitants.聽
Amen






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