Finlandia

Perhaps one of our greatest roadblocks to seeing. nature and creation as being bound intimately as a concern for all people is our tendency to divide our environment into territories and nations, and forgetting their essential unity.

The Indigo Girls here sing a song with a tune by Jean Sibelius that reminds us of this important consideration.

This is my song
O God of all the nations
A song of peace
For lands afar and mine

This is my home
The country where my heart is
Here are my hopes
My dreams my holy shrine

But other hearts
In other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams
As true and high as mine

My countries skies
Are bluer than the ocean
And sunlight beams
On clover leaf and pine

But other lands
Have sunlight too and clover
And skies are everywhere
As blue as mine

Oh hear my song
Oh God of all the nations
A song of peace
For their land and for mine