I am feeling so much grief about the oil crisis–and I know I’m not the only one.

My heart aches for the land…
the people…
the workers (from the rig and those cleaning up)…
the entire ecosystem…
the Creator and Life-Giver…
and everyone directly and indirectly dependent on the Gulf of Mexico.

And the question I have been asking for a month and a half has been this:

Who will pay for this?

Who will pay…
economically
ecologically
socially
politically
and the only response that continues to come is that who pays the most for this is us. We all pay. The reason we ask oil companies to be careful and responsible is that the people that will pay for their mistakes is us–all of us.

If you want to read some good prayers, check out these from the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast.