EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Eight, Number Five July/August 1999 A Parable of Our Time by The Rev. Alla Renee Bozarth We've been reading it wrong. It's a story of how we took nature down with us all right, but not because we're such important hot shots that what we decide goes for everybody, or the Creator is such an abusive s.o.b. that he punishes the innocent for the crimes of the guilty if the guilty are godly enough. We are a twisted species. We bend our view of the universe around ouselves as center cog. By our distortion we have injured Eden. We haven't a clue. . . . . . . . We threw ourselves out of Eden. Injured by us but alive, It's still here all around us. We have only to return to our senses, wake from our hubris, sit down with our creature kin and humbly ask by what name each knows itself, and listen, without denial or defense, for the names they have been saving up to call us. Once that's over we can negotiate everything and start again with what's left. Then - Then -  In the beginning . . . From Prayers for a Thousand Years edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, 1999 (see Resources) Home     Table of Contents