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The Sacred Home
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-sacred-home.html
Monday, July 08, 2013
THE SACRED HOME
Viewed from space our Mother Earth has no border lines - no boundaries between nations and the people. From space the people are all Earthlings.
But down here on terra firma it's another story. We are divided by nation-state borders, by language, by religion and ethnicity - even by corporate brands. Some people think they are better than others. We kill one another. We are destroying our tiny satellite home.
The question of loyalty comes to mind.....who should we be loyal to? Country (an artificial construct) or a president or a region? Should we be loyal to a religion or a pope? Should we be loyal to a corporation that pays our salary?
Maybe it's because my family moved when I was young - from Maryland to Germany (twice), England, South Dakota, California, and Florida (several times) - that I came to see the world differently.....and I came to see 'country' very differently. I came to define loyalty quite differently as well.
What I learned was that people are basically the same everywhere you go....they love their children, they love to laugh, to share food, to marvel at the night sky, and to complain about the weather. For me it didn't matter which country you came from....we are all the children of our Mother Earth.
Like all mothers our Mother Earth tries not to favor any of her children. She loves all the colors, all the languages....our mother just wants us to treat each other fairly and not harm one another...nor should we do harm to our good mother ship.
So my loyalties are clear. I've no time for those in any country who are messing up the human family or our planet home. In my mind and heart I am fighting for the future generations....to me that is the #1 job of a human being.....make sure the future generations can live.
I am here today because of the focused determination of those who came before me and got my family line through thousands and thousands of years of famines, ice ages, droughts, wars, cataclysms and more.
I figure it would be totally arrogant and pretentious of me to forget those sacrifices and get lost in distractions like materialism, patriotism, power and religion.
posted by Bruce K. Gagnon
Monday, July 08, 2013
THE SACRED HOME
Viewed from space our Mother Earth has no border lines - no boundaries between nations and the people. From space the people are all Earthlings.
But down here on terra firma it's another story. We are divided by nation-state borders, by language, by religion and ethnicity - even by corporate brands. Some people think they are better than others. We kill one another. We are destroying our tiny satellite home.
The question of loyalty comes to mind.....who should we be loyal to? Country (an artificial construct) or a president or a region? Should we be loyal to a religion or a pope? Should we be loyal to a corporation that pays our salary?
Maybe it's because my family moved when I was young - from Maryland to Germany (twice), England, South Dakota, California, and Florida (several times) - that I came to see the world differently.....and I came to see 'country' very differently. I came to define loyalty quite differently as well.
What I learned was that people are basically the same everywhere you go....they love their children, they love to laugh, to share food, to marvel at the night sky, and to complain about the weather. For me it didn't matter which country you came from....we are all the children of our Mother Earth.
Like all mothers our Mother Earth tries not to favor any of her children. She loves all the colors, all the languages....our mother just wants us to treat each other fairly and not harm one another...nor should we do harm to our good mother ship.
So my loyalties are clear. I've no time for those in any country who are messing up the human family or our planet home. In my mind and heart I am fighting for the future generations....to me that is the #1 job of a human being.....make sure the future generations can live.
I am here today because of the focused determination of those who came before me and got my family line through thousands and thousands of years of famines, ice ages, droughts, wars, cataclysms and more.
I figure it would be totally arrogant and pretentious of me to forget those sacrifices and get lost in distractions like materialism, patriotism, power and religion.
posted by Bruce K. Gagnon
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