Creation’s Call: A Lenten Guide to Spiritual Renewal
by Teresa Angle-Young and Jessie Squires Colwell
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How can nature draw us closer to God?
Creation’s Call: A Lenten Guide to Spiritual Renewal invites you on a transformative journey through Lent, engaging your mind, body, and spirit with the beauty of God’s creation. This guide encourages a deeper connection with the divine through scripture, spiritual practices, and reflections by stepping into the wilderness—just as Jesus did.
- Experience Lent through the natural world – Engage with scripture while immersing yourself in forests, rivers, and quiet places of retreat.
- Discover ancient practices for modern faith – Contemplative exercises like sensory prayer walks, Visio Divina, and eco-therapy bring renewal and restoration.
- Deepen your commitment to creation care – Explore the spiritual significance of environmental stewardship and climate justice.
- Find healing in the wilderness – Reflect on how time spent in nature brings clarity, peace, and a greater awareness of God’s presence.
Perfect for individuals, small groups, or church-wide studies, Creation’s Call weaves scripture, personal stories, and practical exercises to guide you through a Lenten season of transformation. Whether walking a wooded trail, gazing at a sunrise, or simply pausing to listen to the wind, you are invited to encounter God anew—through the wonder and wisdom of creation.
Step outside. Breathe deeply. God is waiting.
What readers are saying about Creation's Call
I encourage you to journey through Lent and nature with this profound resource—one that will renew your soul and reconnect you to two of God's greatest creations: you and nature. Embrace the journey and be renewed!
Olu Brown, Leadership Coach and Consultant
Creation's Call invites readers into a beautiful multi-sensory Lenten journey. The study reflects on Scripture while highlighting the often-neglected setting and role of creation. The authors compassionately facilitate restored relationships with God, one another, and creation. This study is a tremendous gift!
Laceye Warner, Duke Divinity School
Creation's Call is an excellent addition to the spiritual renewal resources for individuals and congregations. Centered on grounding us in the beauty of God's creation and utilizing practices of body, mind, and soul, this book provides the right mix of study and practice, reflection and prayer, for a powerful Lenten study. The authors' personal reflections bring the work to life in a way that invites our own vulnerability and reflective authenticity, whether used by a congregation, small group, or an individual. Creation's Call will help you walk through Lent into the transformation of Easter in a way that connects that Resurrection Life to all of creation. I look forward to offering this book for use in my own diocese.
The Rt. Rev’d Gretchen Rehberg, Bishop, The Episcopal Diocese of Spokane
I loved the book! Teresa and Jessie did a masterful job of representing sound theology of creation care while keeping the themes of Lent. Creation's Call incorporates a relationship with God's creation as the reader journeys through Lent, not just as an addendum but as central to our faith as disciples of Jesus Christ and to God's image in which each of us has been created. Through Creation’s Call, Teresa and Jessie challenge us to become Christians because caring for God's creation is just as central to Christianity as caring for God and each other.
Pat Watkins, Missionary Appointed to God's Creation in The United Methodist Church