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Exploring Ecospirituality: Sustainability and Spirituality

By Lucy Slinger, FSPA (excerpt)

Contemplating the spirituality of sustainability is coming to accept an evangelizer role in the 21st century if there is to be a future for humans …

Ecospirituality
of Green Living

Right Relationships
Reverence – Reduce
Do I really need or simply want?

Respect – Reuse
What can I give/get/borrow
from the common
for the common good?

Responsibility – Recycle
How can I influence by actions?

 

 …Today most everyone knows the three R’s of reduce, reuse and recycle, but have you ever thought about how this relates to (your) lived spirituality and sustainability?

From the ecospirituality perspective, if all is gift from God then the call to live the famous three R’s is directly connected to living in right relationships out of attitudes and actions of reverence, respect and responsibility. The challenge for each of us is to have a change of heart in small ways that make these connections evident in daily decisions and practices.

There are many ways to make small steps towards more sustainable living. Obviously, the actual material possessions are not what are individually good or evil, but does my attitude and use promote or demote the Earth’s sustainability? … How do I, as an individual, lessen my impact on the environment? Where do I begin to practice a spirituality of ecology in sustainable ways that are life giving to me?

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