Season of Creation 2024 Prayer

Triune God, Creator of all,
We praise you for your goodness,
visible in all the diversity that you have created,
making us a cosmic family living in a common home.
Through the Earth you created, we experience love and nourishment,
home and protection.
We confess that we do not relate to the Earth as a Mothering gift
from you, our Creator. Our selfishness, greed, neglect, and abuse have caused
the climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, human suffering
as well as the suffering of all our fellow creatures.
We confess that we have failed to listen
to the groans of the Earth, the groans of all creatures, and the groans of
the Spirit of hope and justice that lives within us.
May your Creator Spirit help us in our weakness, so that we may know the
redeeming power of Christ and the hope found in him.
May the groans of the Spirit birth in us a willingness to serve you faithfully, so that we may hear and heal Creation, to hope and act together with her, so that the firstfruits of hope may blossom.
Loving and Creator God, we pray that you will make us sensitive to these
groans and enable us to have the same compassion as that of Jesus, the
redeeming Lord.
Grant us a fresh vision of our relationship with Earth, and
with one another, as creatures that are made in your image.
In the name of the one who came to proclaim the good news to all
Creation, Jesus Christ.

Amen.