A couple of questions for reflection

​​​​​​  Two sentences for reflection

In each case, do we identify with the idea expressed?
And what sort of person might we be called to be in response?

1. The dynamism of our consumer society (is) the supreme pathology of all history … we are closing down the major life systems of the planet (Thomas Berry)
2. I feel not like a midwife but a hospice nurse, hoping I can assist in a graceful extinction, for our civilisation to die beautifully (Kingsley Belton)

Meditation and the Climate

Meditation and the Climate

Thomas Berry: "Traditional western spiritualities have not enabled their followers to mitigate or even to understand or protest the terrifying assault of Western Society on the natural world. [This] is evidence of a certain incompetence or lack of understanding in these traditions." 

[He actually wrote American society - he was very American focused - but I think he could also have said western society.]

And elsewhere he said: "Any effective response to these issues requires a religious context, but the existing religious traditions are too distant from our new sense of the universe to be adequate to the task that is before us. We cannot do without the traditional religions, but they cannot presently do what needs to be done. We need a new type of religious orientation..."

Meditation and the Climate

Michael Leunig:

Dear God,

We give thanks for places of simplicity and peace. Let us find such a place within ourselves.

We give thanks for places of refuge and beauty. Let us find such a place within ourselves.

We give thanks for places of nature's truth and freedom, of joy, inspiration and renewal, places where all creatures may find acceptance and belonging. Let us search for these places: in the world, in ourselves and in others. Let us restore them. Let us strengthen and protect them and let us create them.

May we mend this outer world according to the truth of our inner life and may our souls be shaped and nourished by nature's eternal wisdom.

AMEN.