Season
of Creation 2024 Prayer
Triune God, Creator of all,
We praise you for your goodness, visible in all the
diversity that you have created, making us a cosmic family living in a common
home. Through the Earth you created, we experience love and nourishment, home
and protection.
We confess that we do not relate to the Earth as a
Mothering gift from you, our Creator. Our selfishness, greed, neglect, and
abuse have caused the climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, human suffering as
well as the suffering of all our fellow creatures. We confess that we have
failed to listen to the groans of the Earth, the groans of all creatures, and
the groans of the Spirit of hope and justice that lives within us.
May your Creator Spirit help us in our weakness, so that we
may know the redeeming power of Christ and the hope found in him. May the
groans of the Spirit birth in us a willingness to serve you faithfully, so that
we may hear and heal Creation, to hope and act together with her, so that the
first fruits of hope may blossom.
Loving and Creator God, we pray that you will make us
sensitive to these groans and enable us to have the same compassion as that of
Jesus, the redeeming Lord. Grant us a fresh vision of our relationship with
Earth, and with one another, as creatures that are made in your image.
In the name of the one who came to proclaim the good news
to all Creation, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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