Steps to Saving the Earth

We have crossed the threshold into a new experience of the world. There is the before time and there is now. Now is the transition time. Unrelenting change, like the perpetual rhythm of waves cresting and crashing. The wave becomes the ocean it never parted from. There is no going back to the way things were. As humans we have eyes that face in the direction of our movement. The only way we can experience what we have left behind us is in the reflection of our memories. 

There are the things we have carried with us across this threshold into the new time. Much of it because it was very useful before, including the hyper-individualism that allowed us to wear blinders to the undesirable impact of consumption for the sake of acquisition. It was how we had been living. Those concepts were important in a human visioned world that measured success against one's ability to build a personal rocket and leave Earth behind.

We are not simply experiencing societal upheaval, but the Earth Itself is bucking the fallacy of human domination. Our human ancestors sought to control nature. No, not all of them, some practiced respect for the Earth and the interconnectedness with All Life. I’m referring to our ancestors who built Western civilization. Those that taught the supremacy of homo sapiens over all creation, and crowned us humans with dominion over the Earth. 

In fairness, it is understandable that they wanted to ease the suffering from disease, hunger, and death experienced in their lives. To have dominion over nature was a means to ease the suffering of the human experience. But today, we are experiencing the unintended consequences of our desire to spare ourselves from suffering. We find ourselves in a conundrum, the very luxuries that bring ease to our lives, are more often the same things that are causing our Earthly home to rage furiously to irradicate the pain we are causing her.

This is where I should be sharing 5-easy steps to saving the Earth from humans or 6-things you can do to keep living like you have been taught without having to inconvenience yourself. But a list of easy fixes to get social media hits might be a relic better left in the before times. 

All I can honestly offer is a prayer. 

I know of only one Earth. A home to creation in a seemingly unlimited multiplicity of Life forms. A blue sphere in orbit around the Sun in a celestial body we call the Milky Way, one of a countless number of galaxies in the Universe. Thank you Earth for your gifts that sustain Life. May our gratitude find expression through our actions to honor you as loving stewards of All creation on this magnificent spaceship Earth. Your Blessings are our blessings. And so it is!