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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 [...]

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 [...]

Out Sketching. Seeing the Natural World

Janice KirkMay 9th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: "hidden wholeness", alternate, animal networks, awareness, be attentive, consumers, cosmic design, drawing pencil, dynamic systems, fully alive, God's creation, good neighbor, invisible webs, life community, listening, mysteries, Nature Sketchbook, noticing, opposite, poetry, producers, protectors, ripple patterns, seeing, smelling, touching, undulatus, whorl, wonders|

On the Trail at Crater Lake OR, 6.97 Welcome to the outdoor world! Bring [...]

Cherish the Earth. Gratitude.

Janice KirkNovember 18th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: beauty, community, earth stewardship, gratitude, green infrastructure, green pastures, still waters, wonders|

Blue Lake inlet, Warner Mountains CA The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [...]

Out Sketching. Painting En Plein Air. Death Valley Eroded Hills and Smoke Trees

Janice KirkJanuary 6th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Christmas, Out Sketching|Tags: campground, Death Valley, New Year, smoke trees, springtime, Titus Canyon, wonders|

Death Valley Eroded Hills and Smoke Trees Another favorite painting to start [...]