Earth and Easter
I was recently jolted from my complacency about my
relationship to Earth by an Easter greeting from
Joy, Promoter of Peace and Justice for the Sinsinawa Dominicans. She wrote,
As the Easter Season unfolds in the month of
April, this is a good time to consider how precious
and fragile our Earth home is.
And then she sent me the Mobilize Earth website, where I
read
For Earth Day 2012 we are
mobilizing the planet simply to say one thing: the Earth won't wait. It seems
that environmental issues have been put on the back burner as we are in the
midst of a global recession. It is time for us to Mobilize the Earth™ and speak
with one voice, one message.
How do I become part of a movement to Mobilize Earth
beyond the simple personal measures that I take with along with the women with
whom I live? Sure we do the ordinary things, recycle, ride our bikes to work,
buy locally and seasonably, keep our heat at 60o. We even take pride that the first purchase
when we moved to a new residence last July was a composter. But be part of a
movement to Mobilize Earth, I feel a long way from that. In this Easter time we remember that Earth
quaked, when Jesus died. Is earth
quaking now? Do we need to speak for
her? What can we do?
Joan Duerst, OP
Monona, Wisconsin
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