New Year: A Prayer for the Climate and Ecological Emergency

Send us Fan MailWords and voice Rev’d Jon SwalesMusic, used with permission from Chris Sayburn New Years : Prayer for the Climate and Ecological EmergencyFather of Creation,God of Faithfulness ,The First and the Last,You show your love to us through time,Every moment of existence a fragile gift,A blessing in the beauty of biodiversity.To you be praise and glory.Father of Creation,God of Redemption,In space and time,Frail flesh is blessed by you,To bear an image of eternal,As divine honour is bestowed on us. A commendation A benediction,From on high,To to be all praise and glory.Father of Creation,God of Participation,You have called humanity,To tend and keep,To love and serve,Through space and time,Through seasons, soil and sweat.To you be all praise and glory.The cosmic temple of your creation,Takes our breath away,Called to worship alongside non-human worshippers,Who participate in a symphony of praise,In soil and sky,Rainforests  and rivers,In grassland, oceans and savanna.To you be all praise and glory.Father of Creation,God of Justice,We all like sheep have gone astray,And wandered  from your way,We have betrayed our calling.Instead of tending and keeping, We have plundered and pillaged.The soil and sky are dying.Lord have mercy. Instead of loving and serving,We devastated and despoiled,The rainforests and rivers are dying,Lord have mercy.Instead of participating in a symphony of praise, Our grasslands, oceans and savannah,Take up a lament,A cry of extinction. Lord have mercy.Father of Creation,God of Hope,We look back at,The beauty,The brokenness,The joy and the sorrow,Of our Lives.Father of Creation,God of Hope,We look forward,With anticipation and fear,Not knowing what the coming years will hold,As we come to terms with our own existential threat.We have been seduced by consumerism and unrestrained capitalism, We will reap what we sow.Lord have mercy.Father of Creation,God of Hope,Even in our present dark hour we look to you,For the light and radiance of your Son,To shine upon our hearts,To lift our souls,To move us from despondence and despair, toA loving rage,A holy anger,A righteous rebellion,In which we will Tend, Keep, Love and serve,And do and be,Something beautiful, As we take up the song of cosmic justice.Father of Creation,God of Faithfulness ,The first and the last,You show your love to us through time,Every moment of existence a fragile gift,A blessing in the beauty of biodiversity.To you be praise and glory.Amenhttps://youtu.be/9QohvB6LpRU