One of the prayers from opening devotions during the business days of Conference.

O creator of creation

You called us to be a steward of your creation

Instead, we pollute your sky

When you refresh us with your air

We intoxicate your rivers

When you give us life-living waters

We steal your comforting trees

When you trust us with their shades

We vandalize your land

When you reveal your secret treasures

We kill your people

When you shelter them under your roof

We cause violence and disharmony

When you bring peace and unity

Strong you are, vulnerable are we

Yet waiting for you patiently

For sharing from the wise

For awareness from the public

For spiritual from the religious

For healing sympathy from your friends

For action from the politicians.

This world will be always changing

Constantly rearranging

From ocean depths to mountain peaks

Mother nature moves and speaks

While telling stories of our past

She tries to teach us how to last

Mankind so smart, sometimes blind

Leaves common sense far behind

We’re moving fast and living large

Forgetting Mother Nature is in charge

Amazed when she rings our bell

Sending us through living hell

She can twist our steel, shake any city

If her wrath you feel, we shall pity

It’s true, we must treat her right

Or we will incur a deadly plight

Treat her with distinction

Or surely face extinction.

Oceans are poisoned by spilling of oil

Pesticides are contaminating the earth’s soil

It’s a pity not to see a clear blue sky

As air pollution is alarmingly high

Global temperature is rising, glaciers are melting down

Inaction by us will let cities drown

It is not that we don’t have any solution

To tackle and control this ongoing pollution

Reduce plastic use, stop deforestation,

Plant trees for clean air and soil restoration

Factories should stop draining waste to the sea

The Marine life will improve naturally

Composting can make the soil fertile

And we should not let debris pile.

Our marine life is being poisoned by all our toxic waste

Plastic dumped in mass for all our fish to taste

Mountains of our garbage, in our oceans we do store

Then watch in silence as the blood-drenched waves break angrily on the shore

And with it, all the decaying corpses from once an abundant sea of the living

A sea that kept us fed, a sea that kept on giving

Without all these things, we cannot survive

Each link has a purpose in the circle of life,

Earth is our parish and mother, we live in her womb

She provides for all life, so let’s not make her our tomb.

The land is in a constant state of birth

Giving life to all who live on earth

Our carelessness and fears

Have taken a toll over the years

Her land is parched and scorched

As man continues to light the torch

We continue a want of speed and ease

All while our pesticides kill off our bees

It’s time to wake up and see her pain

Humanity’s selfishness is becoming insane

Soon her cries will turn to gloom

And man will cause its own doom.

Look outside, see the trees

Watch the flowers in the breeze

Things won’t be like this in a year or two

If polluting is all we do

Seize the day, seize the night

Things won’t always be this way

Thousands of people are crying

In the night, you hear children crying

Let’s stop the war

Our people are sore

The world can’t help itself

Who cares about the wealth

Help me to help you

Show the world what you can do

We are stewards of this planet earth

We are to take care, not target

One can’t blame pollution alone

As they say, you reap what you’ve sown

So let us plant a better seed

Tear out the old roots, cultivate, weed

We are responsible for land, water, and air

We must never take for granted but always care

The air we breathe must be protected

People of the world are all connected

The water that we need to drink

If polluted will definitely shrink

We must also protect the land

Together we must stand hand in hand

We owe this to our children of tomorrow

Don’t leave them a world full of sorrow.