Hey there beautiful people it is time to pray! It is time to sit still relax the body, breathe deeply, expand our energy and focus on the land and people in the Amazon region. I am sad with what’s happened and happening to the land. Sadness is an emotion indicating a need for action. These fires are a reminder of the encompassing impact of greed. There is a culture of destruction that we must dismantle. As spiritual being we recognize that Spirit emanates in all things, spaces, and time. It seems that if there is a time to pray it is now. Prayer allows us to connect with the larger Spiritual body that existence. When the comments are shared suggesting that we pray for the land and indigenous people. Yet, there an opportunity to take direct and intentional action toward empowering the land and the people who are fighting for truth and peace within our forests and waterways. This is a time were we must engage in spiritual activism. “Spiritual activism is social or ecological transformation activity rooted in a spiritual belief system or set of spiritual practices” (Maparyan, 2012 119). How do we use our spiritual practices affect change in this world. So much energy has been invested in personal advancement prayers. Yet, when I look around the world, I can’t help but to consider the need for spiritual activism. Spiritual activism is natural to use as marginalized people. And in this moment I call for accessing our spiritual agency toward the desired goal of peace and restoration of the land and people living in the Amazon region. We will have more instruction for direct action upon gaining clarity of mind and body.
Now is the time to pray and do rituals, sing to the winds and summon the rains, call upon the dirt to calm down these fairs consuming the forest. This is spiritual activism. . .this is the work of a womanist. . .a humanist.
Arts by Rava Shelyn 
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