Thank you for all who participated in the Pilgrimage to the Navajo Nation

Our Creation Care Team, thanks all of our friends from our local Sister Parishes, Christ the King and St. Matthews who joined our Pilgrimage to the Navajo Nation with Sr. Larraine Lauter, Director of Water with Blessings and neighbors of the Navajo Nation. We encountered the beauty of the Western Four Corners of the Navajo Nation and heard witness testimony from Navajo women on their experience with climate change, the stripping of the earth caused by uranium mines and the devastation that remains. They gave witness to the lack of water not only for daily use but the lack of water for livestock, farming and herbs needed for healing. Many to this day live without what many of us may take for granted; running water or electricity even though power lines run over head on their property. Reminder for all of us to return to what God has created us to be...not simply caretakers of Creation rather work together to restore our Relationship with Creation and our Creator. We invite you to read the book Ladder to the Light, by Steven Charleston, leading voice of justice for Indigenous Peoples, the environment and spiritual renewal in North America. Together may we climb the Ladder to the Light.