Creation care

This week's theme in Living Lent is about connecting with, and caring for, creation. Yesterday's challenge was to go for a walk in natural surroundings to appreciate the inter-connectedness of all creation. I am fortunate that I do that almost every day so this wasn't actually a "challenge"! This is what I profoundly enjoyed on my sunrise walk yesterday:

As well as being so grateful for the blessing of living in such a beautiful place - and the health and strength to enjoy it - I am very aware of those for whom this would seem like "heaven" in comparison with the "hell" they are living in through no fault of their own.

A challenging paragraph from today's Living Lent:

"when you throw something away, where is ‘away’? There is no such place. Things have to end up somewhere. It turns out that ‘away’ is a polluted community, a polluted ecosystem, a sick child or a dead albatross. The world over, rubbish dumps and landfills are concentrated in areas where the poorest live, while parks are concentrated near the rich. In God’s ecology, little is wasted. What one organism discards as waste, another consumes as food or home-building material. What wisdom!"

(The underlining is mine.)