We forget our place, our calling,
to tend and to nurture
the garden of the earth
God has given into our hands.
We take for granted
the world and all within it,
as if there will always be
more for us to consume.
We use up our resources
pumping out pollutants,
changing the environment
for our own selfish desires.
We need to bow, humbly,
to fall to our knees praying,
to ask the Creator
how we should change our
ways.
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edited
April 22, 2018
Taken
for Granted – v3
Earth
Day 2018
edited
April 22, 2018
Caretakers
– v3
Earth
Day 2018
edited
April 23, 2015
Caretakers
– v2
edited
April 23, 2015
Taken
for Granted – v2
edited
April 23, 2015
Formed
from the Dust – v2
edited April 22, 2015
The Garden Finite – v2
edited April 23, 2015
Placed in the Garden – v2
April
25, 2010
Caretakers
April
25, 2010
Taken
for Granted
April
25, 2010
Formed
from the Dust
April
25, 2010
The
Garden Finite
April
25, 2010
Placed
in the Garden
Genesis
2:4b-9, 15
Psalm
104:1-2, 5, 31, 35b (Call to Worship)
1
Timothy 4:4-5
Hymn,
“Shepherd Me, O God”, TFWS #2058 (Psalm 23)
Prayer
of Dedication,
(From
the National Council of Churches [NCC]
Earth
Day Sunday 2002 resource packet,
"Caring
for Creation: Making the World Safe for Children.")
Worship
Theme: “What is our calling within
Creation?”
and
sermon, “Staff Members All Are We”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon
blog
8AM
Live
meditation
blog
“God’s Whisper” blog
the
third in a series of sermons, based in part on the pastoral letter from the
Council of Bishops, “God’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action,”
and
the study guide, etc., based on this letter:
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
April
25, 2010
Third
Sunday After Easter
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