The Greek Theatre at Scarborough’s Guild Inn
On Sunday, June 3, 2012 we celebrated “Environment Sabbath”, according to our United Church of Canada calendar. At Newtonbrook United Church our sermon concluded with the following poem, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his book, The Brothers Karamazov. The poem invites us to find meaning in the inter-connectedness of all life on earth. It leads us away from an anthropocentric perspective of life on this beautiful planet.
Love all creation,
The whole of it and every grain of sand
Love every leaf
Every ray of God’s light
Love the animals
Love the plants
If you love everything
You will perceive
The divine mystery in things
And once you have perceived it
You will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly
More and more every day
And you will at last come to love the whole world
With an abiding universal love
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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