All creation shows God’s love 🌍.
Trees, rivers, sky—His gifts 🌳💧☀️.
Let’s care for them together 🤲.
Based on “Looking at Nature as God’s Creation” (1975) by Chiara Lubich
🛐 Prayer to Care for Creation
Father, thank You for nature. Help us protect the earth and share its beauty with others. Amen.
Every river tells the story of how we live. What’s yours saying?
Rivers and Community: Flowing Together for a Sustainable Future
Rivers are more than water. They feed us, move us, and keep life alive. But now they’re also showing what we’ve done wrong.
This year’s theme—“Rivers and Community: Flowing Together for a Sustainable Future”—calls us to act. Climate change, driven by human choices, is reshaping rivers. Waste from factories, plastic from cities, forests cut down—all of it ends up in the flow. Add stronger rains, melting ice, and hotter summers, and the rivers carry the damage straight back to us.
In many countries, rivers are still a way of living—fishermen throw their nets and bring food home. But in big cities, where rivers are poisoned and blocked by trash, that life has already vanished. It shows how the health of a river decides the life of a community.
Still, rivers can heal if we let them. When a community protects its river, it protects its own future. Planting trees, keeping trash out, and guarding the banks—small acts that can turn the tide.
Floods aren’t just nature’s work—they strike harder when rivers are clogged, poisoned, and stripped of trees. How we treat rivers decides how rivers will treat us.