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Lent discipline 67

We must rise in the freedom we have,
repent of our failure to care,
restore a just balance to earth
by letting it teach us to love.

So might creation be healed
and God’s heart be eased of its pain.

Yvonne Morland

Prayers of celebration and blessing

With mountains, hills and valleys;
With trees and all green-growing;
With oceans deep, rivers and sparkling streams;
WE PRAISE AND GLORIFY GOD, OUR CREATOR.

With swooping eagle and all birds of the air;
With lion and rabbit, and all that runs or crawls on land;
With leaping dolphins and all that swims in the waters;
WE PRAISE AND GLORIFY GOD, OUR CREATOR.

With all people, old and young;
With all races, short and tall;
With different faces – in all our wonderful difference and diversity;
WE PRAISE AND GLORIFY GOD, OUR CREATOR.

With all creation, we praise God
by being as we were made to be.
AMEN

We pray for those who work to care for creation:
those preserving forests and oceans,
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace,
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Royal Society
for the Protection of Animals, Christian Ecology Link …
GOD BLESS THEM AND ENABLE THEM.