Earth Day Sunday..."And God saw that it was good."

The 40th Earth Day has come and gone. And our little village of Leavenworth, along with the world, paused long enough in thought and deed to say a healthy creation - fresh air, good soil, clean water, robust forests - matters. Doing our part, our little congregation, with its' "new and improved" Jerusalem Cross Garden, in adding "Sunday" to "Earth Day", linked creation with our Creator. This is as it should be.

On Earth Day Sunday we dedicated a St. Francis of Assisi statue during worship. (click on photo to enlarge). We sowed spring wheat in the garden. And heaven and earth, creed and deed, were united for a moment in enacted truth that "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." (Click here for song).

And during our simple Earth Day Sunday celebration, a whisper of the words spoken way back "in the beginning" were heard, ... "And God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1: 10b). May it be so again!

Prayer: Dear Lord, let it be so again. May we encounter You in the garden (our own or the Jerusalem Cross Garden at church) as the invisible Conductor of the miracle of life - processes that yield bread for the table which, when broken as sacrament on the altar, feeds body and soul. And in our weekly wrestling with the Word in the lectionary groups, may our very lives, rooted in the Alpha and Omega, learn to speak love. Amen.