Our Creator God, abundantly you have watered
earth's furrows and have blessed its growth;
but surely the land cries out against us,
and all its furrows weep together.
If we but keep silence and listen
to the sound of the weeping,
we will be greatly disturbed
in spirit and deeply moved.
This good earth, which you have
worked signs and wonders to give us,
day by day we kill by burning fossil fuels,
causing devastating heat and flood and drought.
So the land cries out,
and the furrows weep.
God, have mercy on us.
earth's furrows and have blessed its growth;
but surely the land cries out against us,
and all its furrows weep together.
If we but keep silence and listen
to the sound of the weeping,
we will be greatly disturbed
in spirit and deeply moved.
This good earth, which you have
worked signs and wonders to give us,
day by day we kill by burning fossil fuels,
causing devastating heat and flood and drought.
So the land cries out,
and the furrows weep.
God, have mercy on us.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 51; 148; 142; 65
Job 29:1, 31:24-40
Acts 15:12-21
John 11:30-44
Selected Verses
Ps. 65:10
You water [the earth's] furrows abundantly,
settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
and blessing its growth.
Job 31:38
"…If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together…" [Job]
Acts 15:12
The whole assembly kept silence, and listened to Barnabas and Paul as they told of all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles.
John 11:33
When Jesus saw [Mary] weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
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