Today is Earth Day. This is a sad day for me as I see the arrogance and controlling nature of human kind destroying our planet at an alarming rate. Even in our quiet little wooded lakeside community we live with people who want the trees cut down and the wildlife killed or relocated. As much as peopleContinue reading “Earth Day: Our Dependence on our Mother”
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Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. According to the Earth Day website, “The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life to share their concerns about each citizen’s critical role in the environment. Their actions led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage ofContinue reading “Earth Day”
Activities to Teach Children to Care for the Earth
It is important that we teach our children that it is our responsibility to care for the earth. I don’t think you can start too young with this. Keep it positive, and show not only by words but by example ways that we can help the planet. This is not something we can leave toContinue reading “Activities to Teach Children to Care for the Earth”
A Simple Discipline: Honor Your Mother Earth
Many people, even people of faith, have a mistaken idea about our relationship to the earth. They seem to believe this planet and its resources are ours to do with as we wish. Some of us still understand that we were placed in the “garden” to be caretakers, not to plunder and pillage its resources. How can we forget that the earth is ourContinue reading “A Simple Discipline: Honor Your Mother Earth”
Love Your Mother Earth
Today is Earth Day. As a person of faith I believe God is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. Scripture tells us we were formed from her and we return to her when we die. We were not given the earth to plunder and destroy but to care for and nurture. This EarthContinue reading “Love Your Mother Earth”
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