Dec 16, 2018-- The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live -- one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole. Sufi mystic, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, reflects on Pope Francis' 2016 encyclical calling us all to love and care for the sacred life that sustains us, just as it loves and protects us. (7408 reads)