Earth Day Prayer

Lover of the world,
we thank you for the gifts of the Earth and for the way Earth supports our daily lives, from birth to death. Thank you for healthy, fertile soil, and for the good food this land produces. 
We thank you for the abundance of fresh water we have here in our watershed, and the beauty and refreshment it brings to our lives.
Thank you for clean air, for wind, for breath, and for the trees and plants that create oxygen for us.
Thank you for the sun, warming our bodies, bringing growth, and providing energy.
Thank you for the creatures who are our neighbours, for their beauty, resourcefulness, and roles in the ecosystem.
Thank you for pollinators, seeds and flowers, fungi, mycelia, ancient forests, clouds, mountains, sandy beaches, ocean currents, gravity, the tilt of the earth, the changing of the seasons, jet streams, constellations and planets.
Help us to love our place on the earth, and to be moved by our love to live lives of discipleship that reflect our love for the earth. We pray in the name of Christ, firstborn of all creation. Amen.

​- Wendy Janzen