My daughter in a course reflecting on how liturgies might respond to climate change. Confessing to houseplants might seem sillyβ€” but what about glaciers, whales, the Amazon, Monarch butterflies, the 🌏 β€” which rarely figure in our confession of what we have done and failed to do.
Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?
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Sep 18, 2019 Β· 2:52 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
I confess that I don't water our beloved plants more regularly, and I promise to take better care of them.
Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Wow. I was about to ask you if you’d done any writing on climate change...?
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
I love the idea of conversing - and confessing - to nature? I saw a glacier for the 1st time this year, it is shrinking rapidly. I see Great Blue Herons frequently, but I worry for them, for all the birds, but butterflies. And so much more. Creation is the face of God.
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What did you confess? How stupid this sounds????
We confess to God, because He made us stewards of His creation.
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I would suggest it is not about confession TO plants. The preposition is incorrect. Should we confess our abuse of nature and creation, the object of the command that we are to "till and guard"? Yes. Confess *to* that nature? No.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
It looks so completely silly and yet it's not terribly different from St. Francis preaching to nature and all.
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This is what happens when one departs from Scripture and entertains thoughts from your wicked mind
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
I love knowing such a course existsβ€”how liturgies might respond to climate change (& all it is bringing with it). Also, I think of Thomas Berry, whose biography I have been slowly reading since spring.
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