EARTHKEEPING NEWS
A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY


Volume Six, Number Two
January/February 1997


Beginners

by Denise Levertov

But we have only begun
to love the Earth.
We have only begun
to imagine the fulness of life.
How could we tire of hope?
- so much is in the bud.
How can desire fail?
- we have only begun
to imagine justice and mercy,
only begun to envision
how it might be to live as siblings with beast
and flower, not as oppressors.

from Life Prayers From Around the World, p.117, Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, editors (see Resources)


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