Friends, sometimes things occur that stick a pin in the inflated egos of most humans, things that remind them that, as powerful as they think they are, nature doesn’t care one bit!
Did you see the anger and frustration on the faces of those whose travel plans had been interrupted? If they could’ve nuked Iceland, they probably would’ve. You could see them thinking: How dare this volcano disrupt our plans, cause us inconvenience.
And the airlines were busy working out how much they were losing each day as if their profits were all that counted. As they lamented their losses, the volcano continued to send ash into the atmosphere and was unperturbed by the chaos it was creating
Of course, in the past months, there have been lots of inconvenient things happening like earthquakes and hurricanes. We’ve even had a couple of earthquakes in Australia, one in Adelaide and one in Western Australia.
When the earth moves, the results are not always pleasant. The images from Haiti were disturbing and horrific and the people there had more to worry about than a delay in their holidays. Finding their dead and somewhere to sleep occupied most of their time and still does.
I guess when you look at our earth you get a bit of an uneasy feeling sometimes. I mean, underneath our feet, huge plates are moving and it’s these that cause earthquakes. Along the Californian coast, they are expecting a major quake that could well cause massive destruction and death.
And earthquakes can generate tsunamis which can travel thousands of miles and cause untold destruction as happened in Indonesia on Boxing Day a few years back.
Under our feet there is a molten rock layer which, when the pressure get too great, spews out via volcanoes. The town of Pompeii is a reminder of what can happen when human live too close to such valves.
Then the weather frequently throws up severe storms to say nothing of prolonged droughts and destructive floods. If global warming increases the severity of these events will increase dramatically.
No, when these natural events occur, puny man is exposed for what he is: a plaything of nature.
If humans accepted this reality, they might be more humble, more accepting, and demand less.
Playthings of nature, that is what is all living things. Beautiful photo– hey, that is what I see.
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I LOVE IT. – when nature put a spoke in the wheel of mankinds gas-guzzling way of life [how many litres of gass haven't spared by now] moving (from day to day) from one continent to the other because they fancy themself to be important / indispensable , that the world couldn’t cope without, those, of all animals, the most stupid and destructive.
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What disturbs me so much about this is all the media attention that has been focused on all thos poor people who can’t fly. All those mostly north american and european people who are rich enough to fly. At the same time million of poor people in third world countries are suffering from lack of water and food and are dying from wars caused by the leaders of those same north americans and europeans.
No one in the media seems to be the least concerned about the plight of those third world people even though it is certianly much worse.
The message is clear that only certian people count and are of any value and that value is only for entertainment for people at home without a need or the means to fly anywhere.
Too bad that this will not wake people up to the fact that nature is a whole lot more powerful than we will ever be no matter what technology we have and will in the end win.
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It’s not over til the fat lady sings. How appropo that she should blow a stack all over Europe as a conference on the state of Mother Earth is in Bolivia this week. While indiginous people and those who care and Democracy Now discuss the plight of Our Mother. She speaks and causes US & Euros to be stuck. Completely at Her mercy. Thank you, Mother.
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Humans began religion by worshipping nature, because of the constant fear they lived in. Nature the unpredictable that could take away life at any moment was as a result feared and revered in an attempt to appease it. I don’t think we should go as far back as that, but we should respect nature, and use our technologies to help it along, rather than to destroy it.
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Dear Friends, we humans certainly have lost touch with reality, haven’t we? Since the industrial revolution, we have gradually moved further and further away from nature. We live in cities of concrete and glass. We work in offices of plastic and glass. We go to and from work in boxes on wheels or crowded buses and trains listening to amplified music or talking on mobiles.
In the main, we are divorced from nature, from growing things, from hearing the birds and the insects, from feeling rain on our heads and sun on our bodies, from feeling tiredness from manual work or singing around a camp fire.
We have become obese and stressed and unhappy. We are going down the wrong road!
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The Bolivia Conference is happening because of the failures of Copenhagen. The people that are gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, are not just talking about Our Mother’s plight, but her Rights. Seems with the Volcanic situation, she has assumed her rights. Nature will have the last word. It is best we listen now. I believe there is a chance of being spared ones life when the time comes, if one gets right with Nature, now.
Thin, relaxed, happy, listening to the birds, giving thanks for the rain.
Happiness is contageous.
Thank you David for the thoughtful insights.
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Therese Reply:
April 24th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Bolivia Conference? So glad to learn about it here. Thanks to David and to Grace.
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Grace Reply:
April 26th, 2010 at 1:49 am
Therese, I nver thanked you for the Brother Nathaniel link. I spent a day reading his words, thanks! I am always surfing the net in my spare time. It is one of the few things that doesn’t (usually) aggravate my physical situation. Even with all the places I go, I have learned new things -here- that I didn’t know about. : )
People Power!
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I read somewhere that as we become sicker spiritually as a collective the outside environment also goes into chaotic patterning as we and Nature are interconnected and it is an illusion that there is the outside as being separate from our inside or subjective…I have experienced unity and the joy I experienced in resolving that separateness is undescribable..Original Sin is when we are taught that God or Almighty Being is outside of who we are in our essence.Each of us who can have been given a Holy Call to help the people to be balanced humans..we can only do that thru love…I enjoy reading everyone’s thoughtful comments and Grace you are a beautiful person and Therese…a lot of MotherWit for sure…Kate
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Gee, I didn’t mean to sound so cruel to the Europeans getting ashed on. I did find it interesting in terms of the Earth Conference that mostly failed in Copenhagen. Now these people are grounded by the force of our Earth, while another group of, now, indigenous people, gathering for the same purpose(?), but with a different outcome.
Kate, what you wrote is so right:
“Original Sin is when we are taught that God or Almighty Being is outside of who we are..”
How can we, the creation, be separate from the creator? Life is like a pregnant mother. We exist in the womb of life, a part of our mother’s flesh, and yet we are our own person, separate. Other than our own innate separateness, our very every drop of our being is connected to the all that is. If we move, she feels it, she is changed by it, she adjusts herself, sometimes she tells us to please stop kicking.
Also,
“as we and Nature are interconnected and it is an illusion that there is the outside as being separate from our inside or subjective”
I have sensed this, Kate. There are times, if one allows oneself, to feel the interconnectedness of our being and our breath with the garden around us. It is the most real thing in the world. Then I wonder why anybody would pollute this environment we are all sharing – aware – or not.
My husband was raised in a Pentecostal Baptist church. They had a Pentagram and talked about the fires of Hell. You cannot get him into a church now. I am the one who joined the Catholics. It didn’t work for them, me being married to a non church attender. Fr. Andrew who I counseld with every week for a year told me it was ok to leeave my husband – since we hadn’t been married in the Catholic Church. However, once the women of the Church got wind of my single status, they circled their wagons to exclude me. My son was not invited to their daily playdates. I found out that everything I had ever shared with Fr. was not in the confessional, so he was not obliged to hold my words in confidence, but shared them with everybody. His version of whatever I told him. There was no counsel of elders to go before to plead mercy. I was at their mercy and it was cruel. It didn’t matter whatever I said, they heard their own version. For example, I lost my driver’s license because I fainted and my doctor thought I had a seizure condition. I couldn’t drive for a year. I had told one mother my story – and when I got my license back, she said, -”Oh, I thought you lost it for drunk driving!!” It was like that with everything! These same mothers had friends at my son’s new school. The lies and slander followed us for years. The church turned out to be one of the most evil influences on my life and my family’s life.
Thank you all. Now you know why I am more comfortable hanging out with Atheists!
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Therese Reply:
April 26th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
I catch hell from both the religious and non-religious. I am always so sorry to read that lovely women are being persecuted by other women and weak men, for the craziest of reasons.
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