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EARTH PRAYER 1
Leader: We have forgotten who we are.
- We have forgotten who we are
2 We have alienated ourselves from the unfolding of the cosmos
- We have become estranged from the movements of the earth
- We have turned our backs on the cycles of life.
All: We have forgotten who we are.
- We have sought only our own security
- We have exploited simply for our own ends
- We have distorted our knowledge
- We have abused our power.
All: We have forgotten who we are.
- Now the land is barren
- And the waters are poisoned
- And the air is polluted.
All: We have forgotten who we are.
- Now the forests are dying
- And the creatures are disappearing
- And humans are despairing.
All. We have forgotten who we are.
- We ask forgiveness
- We ask for the gift of remembering
- We ask for the strength to change.
All: We have forgotten who we are.
Leader: We join with the earth and with each other.
1 To bring new life to the land
- To restore the waters
- To refresh the air
All: We join with the earth and with each other
- To renew the forests
- To care for the plant
- To protect the creatures
All: We join with the earth and with each other
- To celebrate the seas
- To rejoice in the sunlight
- To sing the song of the stars
All: We join with the earth and with each other
- To recreate the human community
- To promote justice and peace
- To remember our children
All: We join with the earth and with each other.
All: We join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery: for
the healing of the earth and the renewal of all life.
UN. ENVIRONMENTAL SABBATH PROGRAM
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EARTH PRAYER 2
The Drama of Creation
Leader: In the beginning, God made the world:
Women Made it and mothered it,
Men Shaped it and fathered it;
Women Filled it with seed and with signs of fertility,
Men Filled it with love and its people with ability.
Leader All that is green, blue, deep and growing,
All God's is the hand that created you.
Leader All that crawls, flies, swims, walks or is motionless,
All God's is the hand that created you.
Leader All that speaks, sings, cries, laughs or keeps silence,
All God's is the hand that created you.
Leader All that suffers, lacks, limps or longs for an end,
All God's is the hand that created you.
Leader The world belongs to God,
All The earth and its people are Gods.