ELCA's Environment Lenten Devotional

I have really been enjoying the Lenten devotional produced by my tribe, the ELCA. Check out the following sample:

Stop Global Warming
Saturday March 1, 2008
Abundant Living: Wendell Berry wrote, "To live, we must daily break the bread and shed the blood of creation. ... When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. ... In such desecration, we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness and others to want." How can your life be a living sacrament to the wonders of creation? [Wendell Berry, "The Gift of Good Land"]
Stop global warming at home. Stop global warming at church, school, work.
Stop global warming in fields, factories, and governments.
Start.
This is a call to something extraordinary: a life of care and justice.
To protect creation we must make small and sweeping changes. But most importantly, we must begin. You can change a light bulb to conserve electricity. Business can reduce travel and use carbon-free technology such as teleconferencing. The United States can commit to treaties that take responsibility for our disproportionately high carbon emissions.
Jesus calls us to actively witness to a new order that recognizes the outcast and the broken. Jesus' message was radical because it transformed the earth through extreme love for the place where unity and harmony are missing. Global climate change requires that we embrace these dark places as well and find solutions that reconcile us to creation knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently.
Be Aware and then Act
ELCA's Global Warming Resources
National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Resource Guide
Pew Center on Climate Change
Prayer for the Day's Journey Let there be respect for the earth,Peace for its people,Love in our lives,Delight in the good,Forgiveness for past wrongsAnd from now on, a new start.Rev. Peter Trow
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