This year, the theme of the Season of Creation is Living Water, based on Ezekiel 47:9,12

 

Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish once these waters reach there. It will become fresh, and everything will live where the river goes.

On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.

 

An international, ecumenical steering committee have put together a number of resources, including a Season of Creation 2026 prayer.  

 

I invite you to read it, as well as the Ezekiel scripture, pray it, and reflect on it. May it help us enter into this season. Let us pray…

 

Holy God, whose Spirit hovered over the waters at the beginning, we gather as part of your community of all creation, thirsty for your grace. We give thanks for the gift of water, the veins of our common home, that sustains the cedar and the whale, the pasture and the city. We are grateful for the local waters that nourish our homelands and our fellow creatures. We give thanks that in your well-watered

garden, every drop is a sacred testament to your love.

 

Yet, we confess that we have treated this gift as a mere commodity. We have

choked the seas with our waste and watched the warming tides rise in judgment.

We lament the cracked earth of the drought-stricken and the salty tears of the

climate refugee. Melt our frozen hearts, O God, and let the waters of repentance

flow.

 

Lord of all Life, you promised that wherever the river flows, everything shall live.

Stir in us a calling to care for the waters — to protect the watershed, defend the

rights of water, and honor the dignity of the thirsty. May your Word be a spring

within us, gushing forth for the healing of the nations.

 

May God our Father who brought water from the rock sustain us in the desert. May Christ our Lord who is Living Water refresh us for the work of restoration. And may the Holy Spirit carry us on currents of grace until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amen.