April is Starr King Earth Ministry Month

We are dedicating the month of April to the work of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth and to the seventh principle of our association, that of the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part. To that effort, I dedicate this poem by Kentuckian Wendell Berry. Sabbath Poem II (1988) It is the destruction of the world in our own lives that drives us half insane, and more than half. To destroy that which we were given in trust: how will we bear it? It is our own bodies that we give to be broken, our bodies existing before and after us in clod and cloud, worm and tree, that we, driving or driven, despise in our greed to live, our haste to die. To have lost, wantonly, the ancient forests, the vast grasslands is our madness, the presence in our very bodies of our grief. I invite you to somehow, in some way or form, get involved with this congregation’s move toward a greater awareness of our footprint on this planet. May you have a blessed month of learning and growth.

Love, Katie