Creator of this beautiful world,
you have given us forests
watered abundantly.
Without knowledge,
and with unsettled minds,
we are destroying the planet.
As if we know nothing at all,
we change our climate
and forests burn.
Have mercy!
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 104; 149; 138; 98
Job 38:1-17
Acts 15:22-35
John 11:45-54
Selected Verses
Ps. 104:16
The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly,
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
Job 38:1-3
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. …”
Acts 15:24-25
Since we have heard that certain persons who have gone out from us, though with no instructions from us, have said things to disturb you and have unsettled your minds, we have decided unanimously to choose representatives and send them to you, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul…”
John 11:49-50
But one of [the council members], Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”
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