A Blessing of Gratitude with Sister Water

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Blessings and continued prayers this day!
Our embodied collective/prayer meditation this week is an invitation to walk, and offer a blessing of gratitude with Sister Water. 
 
The acequias are beginning to offer the gift of life, water.
Plants are slurping up the springtime melted snow.
We wash our hands with the gift of water.
We drink our fill.
We are the water.
Every religious tradition has rituals for blessing with water, sacred scriptures are filled with stories where water speaks of life, and our lives are filled with sacred water moments.
It is time for gratitude and to listen to the wisdom of water one who heals, unites and carves new paths in this springtime.
 
*Let a walk take you into the beauty of spring within your yard or neighborhood, alone or with your child or partner.
*Carry your water bottle filled with water or let your child carry it and explain why this water walk today.
*Give thanks to water and make an offering of water to a plant or tree.
*Listen to Sister Water as to when and where to take another Water Walk of Gratitude. 
 
Water Wisdom from the sacred book of the Tao Te Ching.
The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.When you are content to be simply yourself
and don’t compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people’s greatest help.
True words seem paradoxical.

Opinion Piece: Methane rule to help fight crises

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Here is an excerpt of an opinion piece that James Jimenez, executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, wrote in the editorial pages of The Albuquerque Journal on Friday, March 27.

As the world energy markets have shown in the past few weeks, New Mexico’s over-reliance on oil and gas revenue leaves our state vulnerable – not just to the economic effects of oil price fluctuations, but also to short-sighted demands from the industry that are detrimental for our children and the health of our communities.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has been on the right path in working to boost education spending, diversify the state’s economy, and aggressively fight climate-wrecking methane pollution. But any day now, I am sure the oil and gas industry lobbyists will come to her seeking relief from new methane rules, hoping to use the recent drop in oil prices as an excuse to avoid oversight.

However, now is exactly the right time for New Mexico to enact nationally leading regulations to reduce methane waste and pollution. The downturn means New Mexico’s school funding and other key budget priorities are vulnerable, and without nationally leading regulations, methane waste is costing the state tens of millions of dollars every year in valuable tax and royalty revenue.

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Pope Francis’ Prayer for Our Earth

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