Inspired by lyrics to “A New Earth” by Jill Colucci, Harold Payne, and JD Martin:
“Trying to hold it together when it feels like it’s falling apart…. We can’t hide forever. We’ve got to figure it out—a new earth, a new dawn, a new way to move on, a new dream, deep in our hearts, we need it now, some way, somehow, now more than ever, we need a new earth.
Are we willing to give and take, to reach across a great divide, we’ve got to stand on some common ground to survive. If we pull together, imagine all that we can create, a new earth, a new dawn, a new way to move on, a new dream, deep in our hearts, we need it now, someway, somehow, now more than ever, we need a new earth.
I can hear the children cryin’ now, ‘Oh, won’t you help us save our future now?’
So let your healing rain fall from the clouds, a new earth, a new dawn, a new way to move on, a new hope, deep in our hearts, we need it now, some way, somehow, now more than ever, we need a new earth. Now more than ever, we’ll build it together, a new earth.”
Responsive Reading for April 24
“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth , . . . God called the dry land ‘the earth’ . . . . God saw how good it was” (Gen. 1:1-10).
The good earth is our sacred home. We see how good it is and we bless the earth!
God, the Good, created all humankind. “God blessed them, saying: ‘. . . Fill the earth . . . . Have dominion over . . . and all the living things that move on the earth . . . . I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food, and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food.’ . . . God looked at everything . . . and . . . found it very good” (Gen. 1:28-31).
A new earth, a new dawn, a new way to move on, a new dream, deep in our hearts, let’s bless it now, some way, somehow. Now more than ever, we bless the new earth!
“The earth is the LORD’s and all it holds, the world and those who live there . . .” (Ps. 24:1).
We are willing to give and take, to reach across a great divide, to pull together and imagine all we can create. We bless the new earth!
Jesus taught us to pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven” (Mt. 6:10).
Let the healing rainfall from the clouds—a new earth, a new day, a new way to move on, a new hope, deep in our hearts, some way, somehow, now more than ever, we’ll build it together. We bless the new earth!