Reconnect with nature
Day 7: Connect with nature
Welcome to Day Seven of our 10 Day Spiritual Journey. Today's spiritual exercise is about reconnecting with nature.
Spending time outdoors or bringing nature into your everyday life can benefit your spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing. Growing vegetables or flowers, or exercising outdoors can have many of positive effects.
When we take time to go out into creation, we’re inevitably reminded of our Creator in new ways as we experience the power of a thunderstorm, the stillness of a meadow, and the delight of a wildflower. Nature preaches a fine sermon about the very character of God without
saying a single word.
https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/benefits-of-making-time-to-be-outside.html
Reconnect with nature
Revd Edward Owen, Parish of Margam, talks to us about the joy of reconnecting with nature.
You may also enjoy Sounds of the Earth from BBC Radio where you can hear soundscapes from the natural world.
Prayers for our natural earth
Gracious God, your amazing love extends through all time and space, to all parts of your creation, which you created and called good. You made a covenant with Noah and his family, putting a rainbow in the sky to symbolize your promise of love and blessing to every living creature, and to all successive generations. You made a covenant with Abraham and Sarah, blessing them and their descendants throughout the generations. You made a covenant with Moses and the Israelite people to all generations, giving them the 10 commandments and challenging them to choose life. In Jesus, you invite us to enter into a new covenant, in communion with all who seek to be faithful to you.
As people of faith, we are called into covenant. Your covenant of faithfulness and love extends to the whole creation. We pray for the healing of the earth, that present and future generations may enjoy the fruits of creation, and continue to glorify and praise you.
Day 8: Furthering our appreciation of silence
Join us tomorrow
