Falling in Love With Creation

Image of St. Francis by Sr. Nancy Earle. Used with permission.

Week Three: Brothers Wind And Air

Prayer Meditation with Air

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Be praised, my Lord,

through Brothers Wind and Air,
and clouds and storms,
and all the weather,
through which you give your creatures sustenance.

Photo: Prayer flags over a mountainside with a big beautiful blue sky with white clouds

“To find the universal elements enough;

to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night … Photo: Girl blowing bubble outisde by a tree

… to be elated over a bird’s nest

or a wildflower in spring –
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”

–John Burroughs

When did you last find the air exhilarating?

Photo: echinacea flowers giving up their seeds

Carbon dioxide, methane,

chlorofluorocarbons, and sulfur dioxide are common greenhouse gases which pollute our air.

Photo: industrial smokestacks expelling gas into the atmosphere

What can we each do

to help reduce the emission of these substances into our atmosphere?

Photo: wind power turbines on a hillside

The wind blows wherever it pleases.

You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.

John 3:8

Photo: scarf blowing in the wind