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My daughter in a course reflecting on how liturgies might respond to climate change. Confessing to houseplants might seem sillyβ€” but what about glaciers, whales, the Amazon, Monarch butterflies, the 🌏 β€” which rarely figure in our confession of what we have done and failed to do.
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Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?
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I love the idea of conversing - and confessing - to nature? I saw a glacier for the 1st time this year, it is shrinking rapidly. I see Great Blue Herons frequently, but I worry for them, for all the birds, but butterflies. And so much more. Creation is the face of God.
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I love knowing such a course existsβ€”how liturgies might respond to climate change (& all it is bringing with it). Also, I think of Thomas Berry, whose biography I have been slowly reading since spring.
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