The weekly series "Praying With Creation" invites you to deepen you relationship with creation during the ecumenical Season of Creation. The journey to ecological conversion and living out the messages of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si',on Care for Our Common Home" has many paths. One of them is through a deeper connection with nature.
Each week in "Praying With Creation," Leaño, a trained forest therapy guide, will focus on a different spiritual practice within the framework of a nature therapy walk, toward deepening capacity to listen to the voice of creation and renew the relationship with God the creator and all of creation.
Often it can be difficult to visibly see or feel hope in our midst. That is where this year's season theme — "to hope and act with creation" — might be instructive.
While knowing how to act with creation can be clear for some, for others knowing the right thing to do can be fuzzy. Our invitation this week: listening in the silence of creation. What unexpected message will we hear?
This week, our prayer invitation will shift: to attune to the sorrow of the Earth. We are invited to listen to the cry of creation and connect to our own sorrow for our role in the environmental crisis.
"Let's be open to surprises together," writes Christina Leaño, "to see how noticing what is in motion allows us to see God's motion taking place and invites us deeper into our ecological conversion."
As the annual Season of Creation begins, Christina Leaño invites you to go on a spiritually guided nature therapy walk with her, whether in the woods or from your phone.
