EarthSong is an educational project, offering programs to promote a more harmonious human-earth relationship.
EarthSong eNotes will be a regular monthly feature of our ecommunication. They will be posted via email to our friends and supporters who have subscribed to our new website. We’ll keep you in touch with EarthSong programs and activities, share with you some of the resources which provide inspiration for our work and our living, and let you know about events we are participating in. Key phrases from EarthSong’s vision statement will continue to frame our eNotes.
We are being called into a new place….
As Melbourne experiences its highest recorded November week of temperatures and the Coffs Harbour region is inundated with 500 mls of rain in one burst, the predictions that climate change would bring unprecedented weather events is eventuating. As the build up to the December gathering of world leaders in Copenhagen gathers momentum, responses at all levels of community and society continue to keep before us the significance of this time in our planet’s emergence and the urgent need to act now.
The Presentation Sisters are sponsoring a postcard campaign urging our parliamentary leaders to bipartisan commitment to an emissions reduction of at least 40% by 2020.
The Faith Ecology Network (FEN) is supporting Project Green Church’s campaign, encouraging groups to gather and be together in silence for an hour each week leading up to the Copenhagen gathering. Because silence is powerful. Silent vigil for a safe climate.
This year’s “Walk against Warming” is scheduled for 12 noon on 12th December nationwide. For information about the events in each state click on the link to visit Walk Against Warming
Living within Divine Mystery….
The absoluteness of Mystery
burns its energy
and I am alive.
The leaf of a Gingko tree
fans its green presence
and dances in the breath
of ancestral aliveness.
My toes feel the caress of a busy ant
as it searches and discovers
this is too big to cart away.
My breath,
one with all other breaths,
whispers the secrets
of a beauty known only
to the one who lives a spirit of consciousness
in the allurement of love.
I be,
only to wait and ponder
the flaring forth of Mystery’s truth.
(Written at Mulgoa, Dec 2008, Carmel Crameri)
We seek to learn new ways…..
Recommended reading this month :
Awakening the Energies of Love:
Discovering Fire for the Second Time
Anne Hillman, Bramble Books, 2008
While Teilhard’s vision ends with a Love he calls Fire,
our own awakening begins when we find ourselves
at a threshold of conflict and dare to take the first step beyond it. (Hillman, p. 38)
“Anne Hillman completes Teilhard de Chardin’s work by providing the next step – a pathway into the most significant transformation humanity has ever undergone. She shows how what he called the energies of love can ignite us and, once we have caught fire, how to embody its ‘200,000 volts’ in our lives.” (Brian Swimme, PhD)
New books by Thomas Berry
Readers may be interested to know the following books are now available:
The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth, Orbis Books, Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim(eds.) 2009
Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality and Religion in the Twenty-First Century, Columbia University Press, Mary Evelyn Tucker (ed.) 2009
EarthSong workshop at the Parliament of World Religions.
“Hearing Earth: Making a Difference”
The EarthSong Core team will present a workshop at the Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, December 8th.
