Preserving Creation

The wonders of God’s creation are all around us: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. But it is easy for us to take this bounty for granted—or worse, contribute to its destruction. It is our duty to tend to what has been given to us. These rituals and prayers remind us of the sacred nature of that task.
 

Latest Rituals

Prayer for transferring a deceased body for the process of “natural organic reduction,” also known as “human composting”
“May I use these waters wisely”
“the prayer was dance”
This ritual can be used as a way to enter into a Tu B’shvat seder or teaching session or as an intention-setting or witnessing ritual for an environmental action
“their roots twine / mycorrhizal networks / like neural pathways / bond this arboreal congregation”
“I bend and bless the earth / with my own brokenness”
“Praise the heartbeat of the universe”
“We stand on the edge of possibility and loss”
“The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.”
“I went to the edge of a forest … To remember”

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