“The world is pregnant with God!”
	Angela of Foligno

Can we care for Mother Earth
Gravid with God
As we care for pregnancies
In others?
In ourselves?

Once
When my oldest was very young
And very angry with me
He said
“When I’m grown up
And you are little
I am going to be mean to you.”

He thought we would seesaw
Back and forth
Between old and young
Him and me
Forever

God created us
Birthed this world

Now it is our turn
To midwife God’s birth

But we are careless
We humans
Midwives of the Divine
Too often
Too much

The Divine fetus struggles
Its umbilical cord
Choked with smoke
With plastic
With money
With indifference
With disbelief

Will Mother Earth miscarry?
Are we to be abortionists
Of the Divine fetus?