Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.
Only you know if we did it.
Ágúst 2019 415ppm CO2
(“A letter To the future” written by Andri Snger Magnason,
on a plaque placed as a memorial on the mountain.)
The power of that “Letter to the Future” inspired this reading. How does one confess to a glacier? Or to the future? “O God of all time – it’s running out….” The Church can lead the people in lamenting, confessing, and promising to the future a livable planet. Shall we?
The full prayer is available as a PDF document. Some of the opening lines are below:
How does confession embrace all of creation? Words are so small Ice so thin it will not move Tears melting unshed We want to avoid this pain if at all possible but it needs to soak into the parched earth, into the thin layers of cold and despair because it cannot be turned away.
