Evening Prayer: Climate Change and Hope

Dear God of every season and every storm, Tonight I watched the news — another wildfire devouring homes in places where families planted gardens just last spring. Another coral reef bleached white as bone. And I confess, Lord, the weight of it tempts me toward despair. But then your Word cuts through like morning light: "Not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock."…