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Mother Earth Needs Us!!!
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Love Your Mother
Earth Day 50th Anniversary
I offer my points to ponder:
A mother who truly loves her children does all she can to
nurture and protect and encourage to support their healthy development. At
times when a child goes astray, a mother guides and chides, if necessary, and she shares the wisdom of her years. A mother’s guiding principle is love and she
hopes for a good, productive, and happy life for her children. Her patience is
nearly endless, that is unless she is confronted with continual lack of respect
and regard from ungrateful, wayward children.
We are all collectively children of Mother Earth. For many
years, our Mother nurtured generations of us, and She continues to provide for
us with her endless bounty of fresh air, water, and natural resources. She also
shields us from harm ~ an ozone layer protects us from harmful radiation,
winter snow melt helps provide for a healthy spring growing season, and rain continually waters our crops. Her lakes, oceans, and rivers provide not
only precious food resources, but boundless beauty, as do her mountains,
meadows, and forests. Our Mother provides us with everything we need to survive
and thrive.
What do we do to show our respect and gratitude for such a
giving Mother? As we all know, most show alarming disrespect for the Earth … polluting
the air, water, and soil with harmful chemicals, and using every precious
natural resource beyond a capacity to regenerate. We’ve been greedy, selfish
over-consumers who have shown a lack of respect and regard for all that we’ve
been given. For a long, long time, our disregard was met by a patient Mother …
but the abuses continued. As a result of our continual selfish, uncaring ways,
Mother Earth cannot tolerate our behavior anymore. Her glacial ice is melting
at an alarming rate, flooding, wild fires, and storms are out of control, a
multitude of species are dying off, and now, a lethal, global coronavirus is
threatening us all. Did we listen and act considerately when we could? Did we
heed the warnings? Some did, but many didn’t … and now we are all paying the
price for that overwhelming disrespect. It really is no wonder we are facing
all we are today.
The question going forward is simple. What will we do now?
Once the coronavirus, our ultimate wake-up call, passes, will we continue with
“business as usual,” or recognize that it is our greed and lack of respect that
ultimately brought us collectively to our knees? We’ve been forced to take a
good long look at the error of our ways … now, if only we will truly see that
we need to change course and do what we can to mend those ways. Our lives and
our Mother Earth depend on it, if we are to endure.
Our Mother has been endlessly
giving and patient, and it’s long overdue that we treat Mother Earth with the
respect She truly requires and deserves. Everyday is Earth Day!!!
