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Blog 87. A Prayer for the Earth: A Thanksgiving for Plants

Janice KirkNovember 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Prayers for the Earth, Prayers, Praises, and Poetry|Tags: beauty, chapparal, cherish the earth, Creation Care, desert, Earth Day, ecosystem, forests, grasslands, green planet, habitats, jungles, life community, peace, plant communities, prayers for the earth, savetheearth, seedlings, tundra, wetlands, wildflowers, wonders|

Then God said, “I give you every seed–bearing plant on the face of the whole [...]

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Blog 86. A Prayer for the Earth. Gossamer This Morning

Janice KirkOctober 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: beauty, call to prayer, capturing the light, cedar, Gossamer, let your light shine, masterwork, reaching, season, settling, silk, spider silk, web|

In the same way, let your light shine before others. . . (Matt 5:16 NRSV) [...]

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Blog 85. Prayers for the Earth: I Mourn the Trees

Janice KirkSeptember 9th, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, land stewards, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: aspen, balance, balance of nature, care for the earth, Creation Care, cycles, desperate need, fog, forest, forgive our sins, guardians, habitats, harmony, lament, Lord have mercy, mourn the trees, oxygen, patterns, prayers for the earth, rain, rhythms, sins, sorrow, trees, water keepers, weeping|

O God, . . . Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; [...]

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Blog. 83. Prayer Vigil for the Earth

Janice KirkJune 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: balance of nature, beauty of holiness, call to prayer, Creation Care, fire, flood, insomnia, Lord have mercy, plant communities, prayers for the earth, storms, toxic waste, wonders, worship|

Awake in the night? Is it insomnia? Or is God calling us to prayer? Join [...]

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Blog 82. Prayer Vigil for the Earth

Janice KirkMay 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, land stewards, Nature Notes, plants, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: blessed, call to prayer, center yourself, conservation, creation keepers, desert, devotional, earth stewards, environment, food-oxygen-water, forest, give thanks, God's love, green plants and algae, holy hands, insomnia, jungle, life on earth, listen, marsh, meadow, meditation, native plants, natural areas, Night Watch, photosynthesis, plant communities, prairie, pray, pray for the planet earth, prayers for the earth, refresh, renew, restoration, restore life, silence of the night, tundra. Creator's love, urgent need, vegetation, vigil|

Prayer Vigil for the Earth Join me in praying for the earth in the Watch [...]

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Blog 81. Lenten Prayer Vigil for the Earth

Janice KirkApril 2nd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: atmospheric rains, blessed, call to prayer, centering, give thanks, God's love, holy hnads, insomnia, lakes moisture, life on earth, listen, meditation, nature's ways, Night Watch, oceans, plants, pray cirdulatory system of planet earth, prayers for the earth, refresh, renew, restore life, vigil, vigil for planet earth, water of baptism, water system, water tender|

Lenten Prayer Vigil for the Earth. Awake in the night? Is God calling? Let this [...]

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Lenten Vigil for the Earth

Janice E. KirkFebruary 28th, 2025|Categories: Blog|Tags: Abide, call to prayer, Creation Care, earth stewards, ecosystems, environment, God's love, gratitude, holy hands, joy, life cycles, lost birds, love, meditation, mourn, planet earth, plant communities, praise, pray, tideline, vigil, watch hours|

Awake in the night? Restless? Here is a meditation to center yourself. Find your tideline [...]

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Rendezvous With a Writer

Janice E. KirkDecember 6th, 2024|Categories: Blog|

Rendezvous With a Writer: Here's the link to my interview with Bobbi Jean and [...]

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The Quilt & Creation Pt. 1 Great Idea

Janice KirkNovember 30th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Quilt and Creation|Tags: biomes, creation, ecosystems, elevation, embroidery, geology, great ideas, habitats, memoir, nature, painting, Pilgrimage, Quilt, quilt blocks, Sabbatical, vegetation, western landscape|

FLC Book Club after reading The Road to Beaver Park - Char, Joellen, Jan, [...]

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The Quilt & the Creation. Pt. 2 The Plan

Janice KirkNovember 29th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: abundant life, bark beetle, Book of Nature, creeks, drought, field guides, forests, Gospel lifestyle, grieve the losses, Hawaiian print, it takes a village, landscape quilt, meadows, native fish, overdevelopment, overgrazing, prairie, Quilt, rivers, Southwest, wilderness|

  Bird tracks cross our Southwest Journey The best year of our lives [...]

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What inspired me to write “The Christmas Redwood, a Forest Parable”?

Janice KirkDecember 1st, 2020|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, Christianity, Christmas|Tags: bull elk, burls, cathedral, Christmas gift, cones, Creator's handiwork, ferns, field sketching, gift, Good News, Jesus of Nazareth, labor of love, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood forest, Redwood National Park, Redwoods, rhododendrons, Save the Redwoods League|

A Christmas Gift The redwood forest is a wondrous place, nearly unbelievable the first time [...]

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Review of Milton the Mouse

Janice KirkJune 11th, 2020|Categories: Blog|

Award-Winning Author Nancy Plain, recently read and reviewed my book, Milton The Mouse. Thank you [...]

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