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ield Guide to Florida’s
Threatened and
Endangered Wildlife

C a r r o l l t o n

e Healing of the Earth

reader: Abba, Father, we thank you for your presence among us.
People: JesuaChrist, our Lord, we celebrate your life in our midst.
Leader: CaialMother Earth, we thank you for sustaining us as we
gpout to do the work our faith calls us to do.
W efllebratyrrflW amily of creation heavdb a |l eirth, as
one seamleagarment^f^vhidfvve, tlo, areln ntenal part.
Leader: We celebraAthe sojjsMvhiA ruHnrelhe fool foloul bodies.
People: We rplohrat^fap calc\ig Mr IhoinrEtc an| m|jn|inS,
which nurture our souls.
-ead^r® *W pfft of all creation, we too have a nurturing role to play.
people: We have been blessed with the ability to choose our role.
Noqflp community, we dedicate ourselves, in Covenant
with one another, to choosing wisely.
’eople: Togeflaer with the Holy Spirit, we will choose life,
■ ■ ■ that vOe and our children might live.
.elder: May the Holy Spirit guide us as we seek to heal
ana to nurture the earth and all of its creatures,
to live in the midst of brothers and sisters with all life.
’eople: And may we travel from this moment forward
intha fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
'Iffan awareness of our bonds to one another and to the Earth,
landjb commitment to our communities
ififlfefever they might be.