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Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast 2011 Day 1

What you can do today
Day 1 – Ash Wednesday
Commit to this carbon fast.  Prayerfully consider what other actions you might undertake to lessen the impact of Global Warming.  Make this pledge or another that you write:
For the sake of myself, others alive today and yet to be born, and God’s creation, I pledge to learn about the impact my life choices have on the lives of future generations, and what I can do to ensure a sustainable and healthy future for generations to come.
This week’s theme for your church: Energy Use
“From dust you have come and to dust you shall return.”  Ash Wednesday reminds us of our mortality.  Lent allows us to enter into a prayerful discipline in the hope of turning our lives toward God.   Discuss ways we can be more mindful that all our energy comes from God.  Our bodily energy, the light and heat we depend on, whether from fossil fuel or solar or tides or flowing water or wind — it’s all a gift.