Cherish the Earth

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 [...]

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) [...]

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; [...]

Blog 84. A PRAYER FOR THE EARTH

Janice KirkAugust 12th, 2025|Categories: Cherish the Earth, Prayers for the Earth|

A prayer to God for the earth: Thank you for your beautiful creation. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nature Notes. Hovenweep NM 1959

Janice KirkJuly 11th, 2020|Categories: Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: Cajon Mesa, collared lizard, desert camping, Hovenweep NM, I Pray for the Earth, Mesa Verde NP, night sky, nomads, Paleoindians, Square Tower Group, Twin Towers, VW bus|

Cherish the Earth. Going to Holden Part 2. Life at Holden

Janice KirkFebruary 15th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: chalet, cherish the earth, community, Creation Care, dish team, disposables, fruits and vegetables, garbology, healthy diet, Holden Evening Prayer, Holden Village, inclusiveness, Lake Chelan, life is short, live sustainably, microcosm, mine remediation, Railroad Creek, re-purpose, recycle, social justice, solidarity, summer garden|

View from Chalet 3, Holden Village WA 1980 Part 2. Life at Holden [...]

Cherish the Earth. Part 1. Going to Holden

Janice KirkFebruary 8th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: copper mine, ELCA, Eucharist, Holden Evening Prayer, Holden Village, Lady of the Lake, Lake Chelan WA, Lucerne, North Cascades, out sketching, Railroad Creek, vespers, village naturalist|

View from Chalet 3, Holden Village WA Part 1. Going to Holden Getting [...]

Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio. Part 2. A private view and more . . .

Janice KirkJanuary 26th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, observation, Painting America the Beautiful, wonder|Tags: Death Valley, earth stewardship, eco-communities, Fourteener peaks, green infrastructure, life networks, lifelines, Pilgrimage, plant communities, Red Rock Country, wholeness of creatioin|

Part 2. Painting my private view and “something more . . .” In my last [...]

Nature Notes. Marmot Springs. Part 2. The Gift of Pure Water

Janice KirkMay 12th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: beaver, cherish the earth, harmony of life, Oregon juncos, pure water, Warner Mountains CA, wilderness|

In my previous Blog, I tell how my family and I found the [...]