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Environmental
Stewardship Commission
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Environmental
Stewardship Commission
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Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota
Lectionary Reflection
Year B, Proper 12, Psalm
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When Israel came out of Egypt, * the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech, Judah became God's sanctuary *
The sea beheld it and fled; *
The mountains skipped like rams, *
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What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? *
O Jordan, that you turned back? You mountains, that you skipped like rams? *
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, *
Who turned the hard rock into a pool of water *
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Reflection on Psalm 114
by the Rev. Tom Harries
It would be interesting to reflect on how our relationship with the environment has changed. Both the Gospel and Psalm readings reflect the experience of people in biblical times that nature was vastly more powerful than they, out of control, dangerous and frightening. Therefore the ability of God or Jesus to control nature was taken as a sign of their great power.
Although we still experience hurricanes, floods and tornadoes, we find ourselves in a position to greatly affect the life of the natural world. Biblical people could barely imagine the kind of power we now have. The instruction to be good stewards is much more important in our day, when we actually have the power to protect or to destroy large parts of the environment.
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