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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Week of August 22-27: 

How Do We Both Care for and Celebrate Our Earth?

August 28, 2022

Each Sunday, from now on, we will offer a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week.  This will be a kind of “index” that invites you to return to a previous meditation which may call to you.

Over the past week we have covered a number of topics. We began with Julian of Norwich who had the universe in the palm of her hand, then we heard from "geologian" Thomas Berry on the Cosmic Christ.  

We then spent two days with St. John of the Cross and his words on the sacredness of creation.  And finally we did two days on Grief--Grief over Climate change, and learning to have apppreciation and praise in spite of all the suffering and grief.

With a grand piano on a floating platform in front of a glacier on the Arctic Ocean, Ludovico Einaudi performs an original piece “Elegy for the Arctic,” to call for its protection. Ludovico Einaudi via Greenpeace, 2016. 

DM 8/22/2022 Thomas Berry on the Cosmic Christ. Catholic priest and eco-prophet Thomas Berry talks about how, if we want to save our planet, “We must invent, or reinvent, a sustainable human culture by a descent into our prerational, our instinctive resources.”

DM 8/23/2022 John of the Cross on the Sacredness of Creation. Christian mystic and reformer John of the Cross, in his creation-centered poem, calls God his “Beloved” and goes on to say that “My beloved is the mountains” and the rivers and much more.

Peaceful forest river. Photo by Philippe Bout on Unsplash

DM 8/24/2022 John of the Cross on the Sacredness of Creation, Part II. John of the Cross speaks about how each creature “is endowed with a certain likeness of God and in its own way gives voice to what God is in it.” 

DM 8/25/2022 Grief, Climate Change, Extinction and Appreciation. We face the disturbing reality of climate change as evidenced in unprecedented drought in China, and major rivers drying up in Europe and elsewhere. Meanwhile Matthew Fox reminds us that “appreciation matters” also. 

Communion. Photo by Kristin Wilson on Unsplash

DM 8/26/2022 Grief and Praise, Walking Together. How do we express our very real grief for this beleaguered Earth while simultaneously recognizing the importance of giving thanks for it? Rilke writes, “Walk your walk of lament upon a path of praise.”

DM 8/27/2022 Speaking of Praise, Rilke Again. In spite of an extremely difficult childhood, Rilke learns the value of praise, modeling for us a way to make it through the difficult times.

Banner Image: The Earth from Above. Photo by USGS on Unsplash.

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