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[Carol Radbord]

Thank you Dean.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Greetings to all on this Sunday afternoon…
> 
> At the end of Helena‘s reflection that was included in this week’s People
> Progress, she ended with an invitation:
>
> *I invite you to consider, ‘Who are our prophetic voices in our world for
> you today?’*
>
> After the homily we were given an opportunity to share with the group any
> person that we feel is a prophetic voice in our world today… I did have a
> thought, but it wasn’t about “a person”… it was more related to the precise
> phrasing on the last line of the shared reflection… For this reason, and
> also because of my own scattered thinking on the subject, I was reluctant
> to share out loud. And then, after Brian spoke during the prayers of the
> faithful about the massive typhoon threatening the Philippines and other
> nations in the South Pacific, I wish I had!
>
> For me, “*a prophetic voice in our world today*” *IS* our world today…
> our earth: Mother Earth, Pachamama (Quechua and Aymara), Papatūānuku
> (Māori), and Akna (Maya). Other terms include Unci Maka for the Lakota and
> Nakota people, and the general concept of "Turtle Island" which some
> Indigenous peoples use for North America.
>
> I consider the Earth to be a modern-day prophet because I believe she is
> trying to tell us that we need to look closely at the ways we are treating
> our home.
>
> Human activities are the primary causes of major global environmental
> problems, including climate change, rising sea levels, biodiversity loss,
> pollution, deforestation, and the depletion of natural resources. These
> issues are often driven by an expanding human population,
> industrialization, unsustainable consumption patterns and will all lead
> to more extreme weather, more food and water scarcity, eventually making
> parts of the world uninhabitable and increasing human suffering and
> conflict.
>
> The Earth cries out to us like Jonah cried out to the People of Nineveh.
>
> God spared the people of Nineveh because they repented after hearing
> Jonah's warning of impending judgment. Their genuine change of heart,
> expressed through fasting and mourning in sackcloth and ashes, led God to
> show mercy and relent from the disaster that had been planned.
>
> When will human kind be moved enough to listen to the Earth? When will our
> hearts be changed? How will we enflesh our repentance? Will it be enough to
> save us? Enough to save our children and our children’s children? Enough to
> save our Earth, and all the species that live upon her… flora and fauna
> alike?
>
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