Lent - Day 28

Lent - Day 28

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Warbler, Ignacio Garcia via Flickr, some rights reserved CC BY SA

GARDINER CREEK

BY THE ECOTHEO REVIEW  ENVIROLENTMARCH 17, 2015

They exhaust me who preach
the world is mine to make,
as though without me – or
someone sadly like me – there is
no epic tale of light’s procession here,
no narrative of tides
or of desiring birds. Is this
what they, bedside
tell their children?
Out here, in dawn’s half-light,
where the world makes me whole – us
whole – I praise the narrow inlet,
its brackish story, that warbler nearby
getting it said – I am here.
By Brad Davis

Questions & Actions

• Think of a profound experience you had outdoors. Where were you? Who were you with? What were you viewing? Doing? What about that time echoed Brad’s last line that you were there?
• What is the world without us? Is the world ours to make? Or are you skeptical like the poem?
• Today, regardless, imagine the world is not yours to make. Instead, imagine it all as gift. A gift isn’t yours to make, but to receive. Take a moment today, and receive it. Perhaps this is through silence, prayer, or finding a place where you can proclaim that you were there.