Where Do We Go From Here

70 Think “Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale helatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin- flowers. And the frisky ones – inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones – rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.” Mary Oliver , from her essay, “Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else?” • How often do we take the time to sit still and examine the world in which we live? How is the Lord of all creation speaking to us through the gift of what has been made? • At a time of climate emergency, how might the church advocate for the life of the planet, the just and responsible use of creations’ gifts and the future of our children? Does it matter? Investigate Read more about our Partnerships with Kenya and Zambia in the Projects section at www.abmission.org Music Playing For Change, ‘What a Wonderful World’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddLd0QRf7Vg