How do we pray for creation in this crucial time? With lament? With confession? With pleading?
Yes, those and more – we need an expanded “vocabulary” to give voice what is happening.
We need the words to express ourselves when we are at a loss for words, when we feel the homesickness of watching God’s amazingly diverse and beautiful creation disappear before us, leaving us materially and spiritually poorer.
For the Love of the Cosmos: Anabaptist Prayers for Care of Creation emerges from a deep conviction that prayer is more than words. It is personal but also communal. It is private but also political. Prayer must also be our protest, a way of loving the creation back to life.
In compiling this collection of prayers, MWC brings the voices around the world who can enrich our own prayers.
May God hear our cries for creation, and may we in turn hear God’s call to us to respond.