Joy to the world! The
Lord is come: let earth receive her king;
Let every heart
prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing.
With “Joy to the
world” in my heart and mind, I’m looking each of these twelve days of Christmas
for the beauty and wonder in God’s world, for instances of the joy that runs
through all of creation.
This is the Green Team at St. Stephen’s in Grand Island. The
work we are doing is joyful and exciting, and spending an evening meeting with this group gives me great joy.
We are about to begin our second year of the GreenFaithCertification Program for houses of worship, learning and acting in the areas of environmental
stewardship, environmental justice, and spirituality. We are building on a
strong conservation tradition in rural Nebraska, but we are doing many new
things on that foundation.
Some people look at our great environmental challenges and
our overall failure to do enough to ensure a sustainable environment and
despair; some simply avoid looking at any of it, denying that the challenges
exist. We are doing something rather than nothing, doing what we can to lead in
another direction, finding joy in one another’s support and in caring for the
world we love in the name of the God we love.
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