Sermon for Sunday, April 25: stepping up and caring for our home

. Our environments play a great role in our
lives both the good and the bad. I'm not just talking about the environment that many of
us think about, garbage, air and water quality but the entire space that we live in.
Though our environment in both senses play a huge role in our lives. If we do not care
for the earth than we will suffer. I have no doubt of this. But I’m talking about more than
just pying it lip service, I’m speaking about really putting the work in and the
commonsense work. Not protesting because people are driving or eating meat or
whatever you don’t like but looking at your environment starting in your own back yard
and working out.
Psalms 104: 25-30
"There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number—living
things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and the leviathan, which you
formed to frolic there. These all look to you to give them their food at the proper time.
When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied
with good things. When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their
breath, they die and return to the dust. When you send your Spirit, they are created, and
you renew the face of the earth."
What does this verse tell us? It tells us to care for the earth. To send you spirit, to
create and to renew the face of the earth. To care well for the earth, we must immerse
ourselves in the world we find ourselves in. A world of mountains, trees, and waterfalls.
We must fall in love with nature. Once you fall in love with nature whatever cares you
have been lighten. Therefore, it’s important to bring nature to you, to your back yard, to
your front yard, to your patio, porch, or stoop, and into your house. By accepting and
bringing nature to you become one with it.