It's Earth Day-Love Your Mother.

O GOD,
we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.

We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and taste autumn's fruit, and rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of spring flowers.

GRANT US a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with your glory. Thanks to Rev. Sandi for this Earth Day prayer.

Please do a special prayer our brothers and sisters the wolf & bear whom we continue to cruelly slaughter for no reason other than our ignorance and blood lust. See, Hoppy: The Story of Wolf 253 (Hoppy is pictured above. Click here to read his story.) See also, Help End A Bear Poaching Plague

Thanks also to Jonah for the caption, Jane for the wolves, and Amy for the bears.