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Climate Emergency Fast
O Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.Let me walk in beauty
and let my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears grow sharp to hear your voice.Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be greater than my brother or sister but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.Make me always ready
to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes So when life fades as the fading sunset my spirit may come to you without shame.-Chief Yellow Lark
Alan Bender writes to draw my attention to the Climate Emergency Fast, in which he is participating.
As global warming rapidly intensifies, the prospect of much more extensive hunger worldwide becomes increasingly likely, especially in poor countries, due to drought, Katrina-like storms, glacial melting and sea level rise. These impacts will lead to crop failures and economic and social disruption on a massive scale.
To draw attention to this threat and its moral implications, we are calling on thousands of concerned citizens to voluntarily give up food for one day on September 4th, 2007. Other participants will fast even longer beginning on that date, some for weeks. Our appeal to you is to consider joining us in this climate initiative called, “So Others Might Eat: The Climate Emergency Fast.” Give up food for one day now to draw attention to the fact that others may have no food tomorrow unless we halt global warming.
September 4th is the day Congress returns from its summer recess. What better way to mark that day than with a small personal sacrifice meant to send an urgent message: It’s time for our national leaders to take action to solve the climate threat!
Some people are fasting for this one day, others, like Alan, for two days, a month, indefinitely—so it may not be too late to join.
I think it might not even be necessary to fast as a public protest. You could do it as a private observance, a spiritual cleansing in honor of the earth that sustains us.
Go to the site. Look around. Think about it.
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2 Comments
1. Alan Bender replies at 4th September 2007, 10:11 pm :
“Mahatma Gandhi, probably the greatest nonviolent revolutionary of the 20th century, once said that, “Fasting is the sincerest form of prayer.” Beginning now, deepening on September 4th and for some of us for weeks afterward, let us pray and act not just for future generations but for those living right now.”
Thanks, Sherry.
2. sherry replies at 5th September 2007, 7:17 am :
Mark & Alan —it is I who thank you for your efforts and your creative energy. Efforts such as yours and of Rosalie’s Standing Women are an infusion of energy to those of us who tire easily. Let us all do what we can to reclaim the spirit, call it God if you will, from those who would claim God as a force for conquest, acquisition, and destruction.
Though I try not to live by slogans, I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that I liked:
Live simply, that others may simply live.
May we also remember yours Mark: Don’t burn the flag, wash it!
And yours Alan: War is not the answer. Ride a bicycle.
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