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sister earth

Posted on July 9, 2008 | Filed Under the natural world 

The earth is not our mother. The earth is our sister, both it and we born from the same “womb,” both it and we sustained moment by moment through the vigilant care of our loving Father, both it and we living toward the day when all things will be made new.

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