In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us to let go of fear, to speak in the light and proclaim our love, caring, and faith in our own world. As our society and our churches begin to open up, we can look for new ways to care for each other and our world. I am inspired by stories in the media of our neighbors – young and old - who care for the ill, lonely, forgotten, hungry and homeless. We have a lot to learn from the protests and need to look for ways we can help heal our communities. Our Creation Care Team needs your ideas and ask that you share them so that we can give them a wider voice.

Some small suggestions for the coming week:

• Let’s remember to bring our own grocery bags to the stores and help restore the commitment to eliminate plastic bags.
• We have reordered CLYNK bags for the parish so that you can easily return bottles and cans to Hannaford to help you reorder your own houses and provide revenue for our parish charities. We will announce when they arrive in the bulletin.
• Look for notices in the bulletin and community newspapers of ways to participate in food and household needs collections
• Look for signs in your neighborhood that a high school senior lives near you and find some ways to congratulate them.

As I was working on some neglected garden areas in our yard, I thought of why it is important to add compost and nutrients to tired and neglected soil. It changes things. It renews and restores, It brings new life. Isn’t that what our prayer and small actions can do for our earth and its people?

Creation Care Team contacts: Jeanne Schrempf or Marie Myer