Embracing Diversity and Justice Through God's Love

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The call wasn't to make everyone look the same. The call was to value the gifts that were already there. To celebrate the diversity of gifts, the diversity of the work. [00:32:50] (17 seconds)  #CelebrateDiverseGifts

If the bees vanish then all of our crops fail. If the rivers are polluted then people get thirsty. If the soil is exhausted then communities starve. If one member suffers we all suffer together and that rings true for whole the whole of creation. Justice is not just for people it's for rivers it's for oceans it's for the water it's for the soil it's for creatures whose voices we do not hear but whose lives are bound up with ours. [00:38:26] (36 seconds)  #CreationSufferingIsOurSuffering

We've treated creation as if to say we have no need of you we get to just use you up and the consequences are real it's felt in floods it's felt in fires it's it's felt in famines it's felt in forced migrations justice calls us back to reality we are one body what we do to the earth we do to ourselves what we deny to the least of creation we deny to our own future. [00:40:19] (33 seconds)  #EarthReflectsOurActions

Together we are stronger together we are better each christian each christian each creature each ecosystem each natural cycle is a gift sustaining the whole justice means not demanding sameness sameness but honoring the differences the church needs every gift and the earth needs every creature the spirit has woven it this way so that the body can flourish when we are all working together well. [00:41:35] (41 seconds)  #StrongerTogetherInDiversity

``Love when it takes on flesh in the world looks like justice love refuses to discard weakness love refuses to exploit the vulnerable love insists that every member of the body human non -human seen unseen all of it has dignity and all of it has worth sacred worth. [00:42:54] (29 seconds)  #JusticeIsLoveInAction

God's call is very clear seek justice for all creation so that when one member suffers we all rise up together to heal when one member is honored we all rejoice as one body whole and restored in christ amen. [00:43:46] (28 seconds)  #SeekJusticeHealTogether

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