This month’s query choice was inspired by this passage from Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song, a book written with the goal “to ameliorate the sense of being overwhelmed and feeling unable to do anything to combat climate change.”

“Sustaining attention to climate change in the everyday means living without the assumption of a predetermined future. It begins with believing that nothing about what is to come is fixed and that the range of what might happen in the next few years and decades and centuries is wider, more varied, and full of more surprises than is usually thought. No outcome is more likely than another, and between two extremes there is no probability that lies somewhere in a predictable middle. Imagine the bad and the good and everything in between with everything you know about climate change in mind. Make the range wide. And then make it wider. Your creativity is vital to the task. Tell yourself that any of these imagined futures is as possible as the next. The present becomes full of foreclosures and possibilities, a long hallway of diverging paths with destinations that cannot be known.” “This is not the time to say that only the worst-case scenarios remain viable nor to dismiss them, for it matters so very much what humans do with their enormous collective powers during this crucial moment in history.”

This month’s query comes from Quaker faith & practice of Britain Yearly Meeting:
Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? Let your life speak. When decisions have to be made, are you ready to join with others in seeking clearness, asking for God’s guidance and offering counsel to one another?