Psalm 8

You have made us co-creators of the earth!

Guardians of the planet! 

To care for all your creatures,

to tend the land, the sea, and the air we breathe; 

all that You have made, You have placed in our hands.  

  

Psalm 8

Psalms for Praying   

   

The bees are working as hard as they can.  We, however, have some room for improvement in the care department.  I am grateful for Pope Francis' Encyclical.  I have not been able to yet read it with the care and attention it deserves, but I pray that it will not simply be shelved.  Today, I leave you with one of the concluding remarks:  

 

244. In union with all creatures, we journey through this land seeking God, for “if the world has a beginning and if it has been created, we must inquire who gave it this beginning, and who was its Creator”. Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.  

 

Amen.