It’s Earth Week. It’s the time of year that we think about caring for the Earth.
My question has always been “Why just one day each year? Shouldn’t we care about the Earth every day?”
Think about it. It’s the only planet that we have, why do we use and abuse it so?
There was a commercial that Patrick Steward did years ago for “One Earth”. This is what he said
What if your family lived in a home on an island you couldn’t leave. With limited amounts of food and safe drinking water. It would be very important to make things last, wouldn’t it? Especially if your family kept growing and growing and growing.
Well, it doesn’t matter where your home is, because we ALL live on an island we can’t leave!
So please, use only what you need … because supplies truly ARE limited.
We can do that
It made complete sense to me! And yet people treat the Earth as if everything is in an unending supply! How ridiculous is that?
People don’t seem to appreciate this amazing planet. I do know people who have told me, “I can’t wait to get off this stinking planet!” And I thought what kind of energy is that sending out? Sent to everything around you that you want to leave the planet and you don’t appreciate the planet.
I realized that it’s probably they want to get away from some of the people from the planet. I get that. I get that there are a lot of people that I prefer not to be around. But it’s not that I want to get off the stinking planet. I would like to perhaps disassociate from those people. Did I say that politically correct enough?
Even my husband has a T-shirt that says, “Sentenced to life on planet earth. “
Do you really feel that you are sentenced to life on earth? Is it really a life sentence?
Isn’t it more of a life privilege? You are allowed to live on this amazing planet and given the chance to care for it and be a part of it.
Sometimes I get that we are here to offset what other people are doing. What if we can finally get to the point where we can shift that? We can shift the damage that’s been done and shift it into the contribution. Eventually you get enough people who make those kinds of choices. I think it will shift it.
What I would like of course is to have that happened sooner rather than later and allow that all to start shifting and changing.
People talk about the space program for getting people to another planet “once we have destroyed Earth.” How about, rather than planning on destroying the planet, we support the planet and care for it.
The astronauts who were in space talk about looking back at the earth and realizing there aren’t any boundaries when you are in orbit. There is just land and water. There is such an appreciation for the earth when you see it from orbit or from the moon that you realize just how beautiful and how powerful and how potent and how fragile she is.
That just always really always struck me and made me want to contribute to the Earth. Being a steward of the earth is what I like to do. Recognizing you can contribute and then doing it every day.
Would you be will to care for the Earth? To be a steward of the Earth means you are willing to care for it. You don’t think you own it or can simply use it; rather you are willing to care for the Earth, to contribute energy, support, love and gratitude.
Now is the time.
The Earth needs you.
Show her some love.
Did you listen to my Global Mother Earth Blessing and Healing for Earth Day? Click here to listen.
