Healing a Broken World - Society of Jesus

Healing a Broken World
reconcile ourselves with creation we need all paths of communication, all
cultures to reflect and speak.
68] When indigenous people nurture a tree, they create a sacred space, and
the tree in the community will nurture life as it belongs in the ecosystem and
will come to maturity long after that generation dies. The tree gives
something to future generations and creates space allowing for diversity of
life, the presence of spirit and God. Many indigenous communities are
bound to the land, as was Adam who was adama - ―of the soil‖; the soil is
always understood in close relationship to water, and both are seen as
sustaining life and the community. The land is the promise of life (of
security and of peace), of sharing as in giving and receiving freely—
something that needs to be learned again from those who live closest to the
land.
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