On September 1, we celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

On Sept. 1, we celebrate the day of prayer for the care of creation.

This Pledge of Commitment may be
read in unison or in alternation:

We have come to renew
our covenant with God and with one another
in Christ Jesus, our Lord. We have come to
help protect God’s creation.

We have come as followers of Jesus
to commit ourselves anew to one another
and to heal injustice and poverty.

We have come to stand together
against all threats to life.

We have come to discover
some new beauty every day in God’s creation:
the sunrise and sunset, birds, flowers
and trees, rainbows in the sky, the stars, the
many forms of life in the forest.

We have come to listen
to the "music of the universe" —water flowing
over rocks, the wind, trees bending in the
wind, raindrops pattering the roof.

We will remember always
that God speaks to us through the
beauty of his creation, and we will try
our best to answer God’s call to
reverence all that he has created.