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Gratefulness
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We have plunged into our gratefulness for water from two angles: observing how valuable it is to us yet also how we need to exponentially increase our efforts to protect this life-giving resource. Take a moment to consider our guardianship of water through the lens of justice and compassion offered by this poem:
Psalm 24 Who is fit to hold power and worthy to act in God’s place? Those with a passion for the truth, who are horrified by injustice who act with mercy to the poor and take up the cause of the helpless, who have let go of selfish concerns and see the whole earth as sacred, refusing to exploit her creatures or to foul her waters and lands. Their strength is in their compassion; God’s light shines through their hearts. Their children’s children will bless them, and the work of their hands will endure.
Psalm 24
Who is fit to hold power and worthy to act in God’s place?
Those with a passion for the truth, who are horrified by injustice who act with mercy to the poor and take up the cause of the helpless, who have let go of selfish concerns and see the whole earth as sacred, refusing to exploit her creatures or to foul her waters and lands.
Their strength is in their compassion; God’s light shines through their hearts. Their children’s children will bless them, and the work of their hands will endure.
– from A Book of Psalms, selected and adapted from the Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell, HarperCollins, 1993
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