The call of justice creation is upon us
because God’s Garden bears fruits
only of goodness and love;
injustice has no place to take root
in the Lord’s Garden.
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Our Creator God invites us
to tend to the Lord’s Garden –
beyond performative words –
toward a tangible justice harvest
for all people,
and all creation,
that cultivates the margins.
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Our Gardner God call us
to provide clinical counseling
for those processing trauma;
to become abolitionists
of the prison industrial complex
and free prisoners from servitude to capitalism;
to expunge student debt;
to create housing for all;
to make medical and mental healthcare
accessible to all;
to demand an end to war
and instead fund the wholistic care
of all children;
to end global hunger
and distribute hoarded resources
equitably;
to lay fallow the Earth
from extractive industries
and repent of our idolatrous beliefs
of private property ownership
over God’s creation.
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We tend to these seedlings of justice –
toward the future harvest of God’s Garden –
because they are right and just;
because they are love;
because God has covenanted with us
as followers of Christ
to co-create the Lord’s Garden.
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This is our salvation:
to tend to the Earth
and all of its inhabitants
until God’s intended flourishing
springs forth for all creation –
from mutual co-creation –
amidst adulation of praise,
communal well-being,
and the final fruition
of God’s glorious Garden.
Deacon Grant 