What would you do to save your mom? (commentary)

What would you do to save your mom?
by John Trent


Oh..... the birds are singing in the early morning gray and the rays of the sun are stretching over the wooded horizon. Humid, yet comfortable, it is a wonderful time to sit quietly and experience the miracle of another day.

As I contemplated this beautiful gift, I imagined sailing the Heaven's on this amazing spaceship, Earth and the responsibility we each have for maintaining this beautiful and delicate craft. To comprehend this responsibility, we must understand the perfection of Heaven and earth. Wind, rain, and sun come to us through the sky and the earth gives us our home, our nourishment.

As Earth Day has quietly passed, I am reminded of the devastation the human race has inflicted upon our planet, our home. Chief Seattle once said, “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” So if we wish to afford our descendants the same privilege as us, we must see the earth as an extension of ourselves; a part of our very spirit and being.

We can make a difference. Slowly and steadily, we can return Mother Earth to health and well being. Though we are here for only an instant, we can change the future. So, I leave you with this excerpt from Lord Byron’s, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage;

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more."

Blessings to each of you and much love, John