April 19
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Today's
quotation:
It is good to realize that
if love and peace can prevail on earth,
and if we can
teach our children to honor nature's gifts,
the joys and
beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
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Today's
Meditation:
I'm
afraid that since Jimmy spoke these words, the concept of
honoring nature's gifts has taken quite a beating,
especially here in America. We've gone from being
more ecology-minded to driving Humvees and SUV's, putting
much more pollution in the air than we would if we
drove cars that got good mileage, and in the meantime
killing millions more trees than would have died
otherwise, putting tons more pollutants in the air than we
would have otherwise, and using up more fossil fuels than
we would have otherwise.
And
that's just what we're doing with fossil fuels.
Plastics? Waste? Landfills? In the very
large picture, there's little evidence that we're honoring
anything at all that life has given us through its gift of
nature.
That
said, how can I make a difference? Of course, the
only difference that I truly can make is in what I do
personally, and I can hope that others see the model and
respond well to it, that there's some sort of ripple
effect caused by my actions. It's not healthy or
helpful for me to worry about what other people are doing
when I have no control over their actions; I can only do
and be what and who I feel called to do and be.
If
peace and love can prevail on the earth, they will do so
in the small ways--ways that can come from you.
We'll teach our children to honor the gifts of nature
through our examples--and that's an example that you can
set, if you but choose to do so.
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Questions to
consider:
In which ways might you set an example of honoring
nature?
How might you contribute to love and peace prevailing
on the earth?
Can you name some of the joys and beauties of the
outdoors? |
For further
thought:
If only we know, boss, what
the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe
they call--call us--and we don't hear them. When will
people's ears open,
boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When
shall we open
our arms to embrace everything--stones, rain, flowers, and
people? What
do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have
to say about that?
Nikos Kazantzakis
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