Climate Change Prayers

A Psalm for the Weirding of the Weather
(especially for a Harvest festival service)

Our ancestors trusted in you from the goodness of the earth - 
with them we sing:
We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand.
He sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine, and soft refreshing rain.

Our children struggle to trust you with the earth.
They begin to doubt its goodness, and yours, O Lord.
as the heavens above send violent floods instead of soft rain
as the sun shines harsh and the earth warms and warms and warms.

As for us, we hold the stable past and the anxious future
in this moment, in your presence:
We thank you, then, O Father, for all things bright and good:
The seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food.
We bring you our thanks and our praise
as we bring you our fears.

As the weather becomes weird
we mourn for gentle times.
As the earth becomes battered
we grieve for tender things.
We pray for fragile creatures
we weep for lives cut short. 

All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above;
Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord
for all his love.
Send us, also, Lord, the gifts we need in a changing climate.
Amen.