Journey Inward, Journey OUTWARD

In my book, LOVING MOTHER EARTH, I’m working at the task of integrating Environmentalism and Spirituality.  In this Blog Post I want to refer you to an article published by Senator Chris Murphy in which he advocates for five structural or political actions that our country should take going forward.  You will find them culled from his article, and noted below.
 
As Father Richard Rohr reminds us daily, it is about action and contemplation.  There is a journey outward that is integrated with the journey inward.  Years ago I participated in a day-long seminar with then Dominican Mathew Fox, who spoke to all of us about how a deep mysticism eventuates in a deep prophetic life, and a deep prophetic life, if it is to be healthy, must come from a deep mysticism.
 
Let us LOVE MOTHER EARTH, inward and outward.
 
From Sen. Murphy:
 
First, Congress can restore the United States’ commitment to the Green Climate Fund, providing the funding to meet the nation’s original 2014 pledge of $3 billion, and then putting us on a schedule to double that amount by the end of the administration
 
Second, Congress should ensure that, from now on, foreign policy is climate policy. 
 
Third, economic statecraft needs to be as green as our assistance. 
 
Fourth, in the wake of Trump’s counterproductive trade wars, we need to move in the opposite direction when it comes to clean energy technology.
 
The fifth and final thing we must do is lead by example every step of the way.