Rev. Dr. W. Benjamin Boswell | Joel 2:12-17, 21-29 | “Acknowledge your separation and return to your Creator! Return to your mother! Return to the land and the earth. Return to the one who made you, bore you, raised you, fed you, and who cares for you even now in the midst of your separation. Return to yourself. Tear open your hearts with love and return. Then, and only then, will the restoration and new creation of God begin again.”“The earth is longing to love you and heal you, and longing for you to love and heal it in return. We don’t have to be lonely. The land is longing for a sacred relationship with you. We don’t have to be cut off, separated and estranged from the earth. We are what the land is thirsting for and longing for. We can make the soil sing if we want to. All we have to do is tear open our hearts, stop killing our mother, and return to her with love.” – Rev. Dr. Ben Boswell