God's Good Earth: Praise and Prayers for Creation

Hardcover

God's Good Earth offers an engaging resource for prayer, reflection, and worship that reflects and nourishes their efforts to serve God and care for God's creation. Compilers Anne and Jeffery Rowthorn have prepared 52 beautiful, ready-made prayer services, each around a specific theme, drawing from a rich variety of ecumenical resources: psalms and other responsive readings, Scripture, hymns, prayers, and reflections from the world's most engaging nature writers and interpreters of the social and cultural landscape. Each section can be used in full, or the user may select smaller sections; permission is granted to the purchaser to reproduce for use in public prayer.

God's Good Earth forms hearts and minds to know that transformation is not only possible but essential if the Earth is to survive, healthy and whole. Those who enter into the book's praise and prayer will have their faith in God the Creator strengthened, their gratitude for the wonders of God's creation deepened, and their commitment to act on behalf of God's good earth enhanced.

Contents include:

God the Creator and God's Glorious Creation

• 13 Prayers
• 12 Scriptures
• 7 Litanies
• 7 Reflections
• 3 Canticles
• 7 Hymns

God's Physical Universe

• 14 Prayers
• 11 Scriptures
• 7 Litanies
• 6 Reflections
• 1 Canticle
• 7 Hymns
• 1 Reading

The Diversity of God's Creatures

• 12 Prayer
• 6 Scriptures
• 6 Litanies
• 6 Reflections
• 6 Hymns
• 3 Canticles
• 1 Reading

The Human Community and It's Needs

• 22 Prayers
• 8 Canticles
• 16 Scriptures
• 11 Litanies
• 11 Reflections
• 11 Hymns

The Whole Creation Groaning in Travail

• 28 Prayers
• 5 Canticles
• 23 Scripture
• 14 Litanies
• 14 Reflections
• 14 Hymns

Hope and the Future

• 14 Prayers
• 2 Canticles
• 16 Scriptures
• 7 Litanies
• 7 Reflections
• 7 Hymns