Lenten Carbon Fast

Lenten Carbon Fast 

Daily email messages throughout Lent with a carbon saving task for each day.

Pastor Chris gave a good sermon today - or as she would call it, a reflection.  It revolved around caring for the earth with some reminders of our call to be stewards of the earth dating back to the very beginning and the promise that taking even one small step towards righting a wrong will build our confidence and impact the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.  She also shared a rather fun initiative that is in its fourth year, one that I did not know about, the Lenten Carbon Fast.  This is an ecumenical initiative and, in part, as an individual you may sign up to receive daily emails during Lent.  Each email will suggest one step you might take that day to reduce carbon or care for the earth.  Some things are very simple, some may take a little more doing.  It's kind of what I've been thinking of for myself with this blog, except condensed into a more manageable time period.  I've signed up and I'll share with you how I'm doing.

I need this extra push.  As winter has drug on, I've begun to feel overwhelmed by the whole - how can one person make a difference - downer of fighting climate change.  Chris' sermon came at a good time to remind me that, yes, I am making a difference and by the very act of writing this blog, even though I certainly don't do it every day as I promised, I'm helping the world a little bit and myself even more.

If you want to try the Lenten Carbon Fast too, here is a link to the sign up page. Lenten Carbon Fast

Related to the sermon, the scripture story today was one of the creation stories -just the part about creating Adam from dust and creating the garden of Eden.   As she told the story, I thought to myself, perhaps this old story, which dates back to the fertile crescent, pre Christian, pre Judaism times, is not a story of the past, but a story of the future - a prophetic story - where the earth is our garden of Eden. Let's hope we don't get booted out this time.