Harvest and Caring for our World

 

This week we celebrated Harvest, and Isabel and Soraia helped us to focus on our world. Here are some prayers and a reading from the service. Dorothy and Fiona set up amazing and thought provoking displays.

 

God, our Creator, as we reflect on the mystery of our fragile planet, we celebrate the wonders of earth as our home and give you thanks at this harvest time.

We praise you for the provision of our needs with food and shelter, for the variety of life and its abundance. Every day we rely on earth’s provision of our sustenance.

But help us to remember how we have polluted our planet and exploited it. Teach us to sense your presence pulsing through earth as a living green-blue sanctuary.

Teach us to love earth as our home. In the name of Christ, the Word of God, who is the creative impulse in all creation. Amen.

‘The Word of the Lord in creation’. The Psalmist calls us all to praise God because of what God’s word has done. The Word is the means by which God created the skies, earth and all the seas.

Verses from Psalm 33

Rejoice in the LORD,

For the word of the LORD is upright,

and all his work is done in faithfulness.

He loves righteousness and justice;

the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,

and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;

he put the deeps in storehouses.

Let all the earth love the LORD;

let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

For he spoke, and the earth came to be;

he commanded, and it stood firm.

A Prayer Poem

The spider spinning webs

the whale swimming the ocean

the poppy glowing in the field

the world in all its commotion

May we have eyes to recognise it all

and see the glory that is yours

 

The magpie in the garden

the otter by the lake

the flower in the rainforest

the vole, the fish, the snake

May we have eyes to recognise them all

and celebrate the wildness of your imagination

 

The desert creeping south

the icecaps breaking free

the climate growing warmer

less rain for you and more for me

May we have eyes to see it all

and know the pain creation feels

 

The power within the wave

the current within the wind

the volt within the sunlight

recycled instead of binned

May we have eyes to recognise it all

and insight to use your gifts well. Amen