{"id":7169,"date":"2023-09-11T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/advocacy\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2023-09-11T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:59:26","slug":"allow-flourishing-in-season-of-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/advocacy\/allow-flourishing-in-season-of-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow Flourishing in Season of Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Season of Creation is a splendid opportunity for Christians around the world to embody the communion for which we human earthlings are created, and to do so in the quest for lifeways that build justice among people and allow Earth\u2019s web of life to flourish,\u201d said<\/a> the Rev. Dr. Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, Director of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary\u2019s Center for Climate Justice and Faith. The celebration spans Sept. 1 through Oct. 4, shaped as an annual season instrumentally by the World Council of Churches, and is a time for Christians to come together to care for our common home (more<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In interwoven global awareness, local action and prayer, many of us are seeking to embody communion for the sake of God’s good creation. \u201cTime after time a new report, study or press conference calls a \u2018code red\u2019 for our planet,\u201d observes Christine Moffett, ELCA Program Director for Environment and Energy. \u201cIt is time for less talking about it and more acting about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

GLOBAL<\/h5>\n

\"\"<\/a>Significant global decision-makers will be meeting in confluence with Season of Creation dates. New York City hosts the highest-level gathering of the United Nations – the United Nations General Assembly – on Sept. 19-26, 2023. Heads of state meet, including for a “Climate Ambition Summit” on Sept. 20 to accelerate action by all sectors of society to address the increasing threat of climate change. National governments have not done enough to stop global warming in the seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed, relays our Lutheran Office for World Community<\/a> (LOWC) program director Daniel Pieper from content of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change March 2023 Synthesis Report<\/a>. In that context, he notes that UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said “the world is running out of options to defuse the ‘ticking climate time bomb.'”<\/p>\n

As a joint ministry with both the ELCA and Lutheran World Federation (LWF), LOWC colleagues find foundational affirmation<\/a> from the Twelfth LWF Assembly: \u201cthe global ecological crisis, including climate change is, human-induced. It is a spiritual matter. As people of faith, we are called to live in right relationship with creation and not exhaust it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay attuned to COP28<\/a>, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, being held Nov. 30-Dec. 12, 2023, at the Expo City, Dubai. ELCA and LWF presence will be onsite to advance advocacy priorities.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

LOCAL<\/h5>\n

\"\"<\/a>GreenFaith<\/a> has organized a March to End Fossil Fuels on Sept. 17 in New York City in conjunction with the Climate Ambition Summit. Several of our faith partners and some ELCA congregations and leaders will be participating. Lutherans Restoring Creation (LRC) describes<\/a> the event as a time to witness \u201cin search of a better way to offer healthy energy to our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

While advocating for global impact is vital, in each of our communities we are aware of the splendor of and the degradation to God\u2019s gift of creation. The ELCA\u2019s most recent social message, \u201cEarth\u2019s Climate Crisis,\u201d reads: \u201cThis social message is rooted in our duty to be responsible caretakers of God\u2019s creation. It is motivated by that responsibility and by hope\u2026 With God\u2019s help humanity can turn from the present course, take loving and just action, and live more harmoniously within God\u2019s beautiful and verdant creation\u201d (pp. 1-2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The 2023 Farm Bill reauthorization will have significant impacts for all: those of us with farm-related vocations; those of us who go to supermarkets, farmers markets, SNAP provisions and global food aid for needed provision; and the communities and natural foundations that are needed to feed us into the future. If you didn\u2019t use the Farm Bill background & template letters<\/a> as an act of advocacy in service to your neighbor on \u201c\u2019God\u2019s work. Our hands.\u2019 Sunday\u201d this year, revisit the resource and consider reaching out to policy makers to influence a policy outcome that can – as Pr. Moe-Lobeda characterized – \u201callow Earth\u2019s web of life to flourish\u201d.<\/p>\n

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PRAYER<\/h5>\n

\"\"<\/a>Many of us sense these times as a “Kairos moment,” a descriptor from the social message of a decisive time in our relationship with God’s creation. In this Season of Creation, let us all join in prayer.<\/p>\n

Prayers and other liturgical resources<\/a> are available around the 2023 Season of Creation theme, “Let Justice and Peace Flow.”<\/p>\n

Additionally, LRC has shared a prayer composed by the Rev. Lee Gable and the Rev. Inge Williams called “Sowing the Seeds of Transformation.” It can be found in full<\/a> online, but here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

O God, whose fingerprint is reflected in every leaf and person,<\/em>
\nyou have entrusted us with the resources of Creation<\/em>
\nAnd yet we squander your generous life-giving gift as if there is endless supply.<\/em>
\nTransform our stewardship from immediate gratification to generational investment.<\/em>
\n…<\/em>
\nInspire in us repentance and encourage our struggle for a just future<\/em>
\nAs we join you in mending this wounded world and its people<\/em>
\nSo that the fullness of your Kin-dom dream may become reality for all<\/em>
\nInto the ages of the ages.<\/em>
\nAmen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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