Tip Theology

[David Hogan]

Helping Earth Helps Others - This year Earth Day falls within Holy Week, specifically this coming Good Friday. To fully honor Earth Day, we encourage you to help the Earth do her job in these ways:
Enjoy yourself – go outside and walk, hike, garden, or relax and enjoy being at home on Earth.
Express yourself – make up your own prayer to give thanks to God for what you appreciate most about living on the Earth.
Affirm yourself – make a list of all the things you now do to honor the Earth, especially in reducing water, energy, gas, food or plastic consumption.
Challenge yourself – do something new to help the Earth and our poorest neighbors ... find a new way to consume less water, energy, gas, food or plastic.
Engage yourself – witness to and encourage your family, friends, congregation, workplace, and elected officials to make Earth-honoring choices.
By helping the Earth do her job better, we might just get better at doing our job as Christians:
    'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
There is no commandment greater than these.
- Mark 12:30-3      For more see: www.episcopalchurch.org/earthday