Prayer: Stewardship of Creation, from Alice Walker, writer

Helped are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infi nity. Helped are those who love the Earth, their mother, and who willingly suffer that she may not die; in their grief over her pain they will weep and in their joy in her lively response to love, they will converse with all living things. Helped are those who love and actively support the diversity of life; they shall be secure in their differences.