I am curious lately -- my hands pulling worm after worm out of my compost as I move the new soil from bin to vegetable garden -- about a God who might love the world enough to call plants and worms “kin.” What if we did the same? How do we gain tenderness toward the earth we live in, becoming those most passionate about seeing the earth cared for, nourished and returned to what’s right? 

Perhaps that starts with our own hearts, with seeing the natural world as God sees it. Today we're asking the question: What if our neighbor is not only the human next door, but the living beings all around us?

 

Links:

• This reflection and practice were also published this week in The Slow Way Newsletter.
• Find a transcript of this episode here. 
• Read Sing, Wrestle, Spin by Jennifer Grant
• Read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
• Listen to and watch "Sycamore, Sparrow" by Good Shepherd Collective
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• Micha's other podcast, The Lucky Few, is all about Down syndrome advocacy. She cohosts it with Heather Avis and Mercedes Lara. On this week's episode they interviewed Noah Matthews Matofsky, Disney's first actor in a film with Down syndrome, who stars as the leader of the Lost Boys in the new movie Peter Pan & Wendy.

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