Environmental crisis: urgency and patience

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As I understand God as
the creator of all creation

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and God as the spirit present
in all creation

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it changes the way
I engage with the world.

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One thing it does is it makes me
both feel urgency and patience.

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Urgency because you realize
that in this world

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horrible, horrible things can happen.

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And if I'm not engaged

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and if I'm not encouraging
other people to be engaged

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the consequences, this is a real world,
the consequences can be terrible.

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So there's real urgency.

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But there's also,
there's not panic, paralyzing fear.

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There's a sense that if I believe
the spirit is at work,

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we may mess up
but the spirit will keep working.

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So there's this sense that there's
great urgency, great responsibility,

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but there's also a sense of trust
in the work of God in the world.