Sweep the floor clean and open the windows! It’s a brand and grand new year! And in order to make it the absolute best, one of the most important activities that we can practice (besides good mid-winter cleaning) is forgiveness. Here’s why: The new year offers many opportunities for us to do better than we […]

Heavenly Father, the earth is Your creation,
beautiful, vast, teeming with life, and constantly moving.
We treasure this place, we are in awe of it,
we find shelter here, and all that can sustain us.
Help us, Lord, to know how best to care for Your earth.
Give us guidance and wisdom
so that we may respect, tend, and nurture
Your Earth.
And make us good stewards so that
the next generation and the next
will also, here, find home.