Gale-force winds battered Scotland over the weekend, gusting
to 100 mph on the hills. The glorious autumn foliage lies scattered over the
ground, mellow colours beginning to moulder and decay. Branches, bared now for
the coming winter, stretch to the sky.
Covid-19 has battered the world like an autumn gale. It has
brought uncertainty and death and left many of us stripped down to basics, more
aware than ever of our inability to control nature. More aware than ever of our
total dependence on our loving Creator.
And as we enter the second week of COP26, we pray that the
nations will unite against further self-destructive behaviour, however costly
it is. The autumn winds are howling, hurting the most vulnerable and least
culpable of peoples.
Our need to remediate our behaviour is starkly exposed. May
God inspire those making decisions and commitments to be willing to sign up to
sacrificial steps in order to allow our planet, God’s glorious world, to
recover.
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