Today's passage reminds me that as humans we are responsible for all that happens on earth. We ARE the stewards of the planet. And we obviously are not doing a very good job. We often neglect the gift we have been given. And we use and abuse it. If we cared for a child in the same manner as we do the planet, the child would be taken away from us by the authorities and its care given over to someone else.
The problem is, there's no one else to give the planet over to. It's up to us. It's up to you. Oh, how easy it is to write those words. How easy it is to give up my own responsibility for the planet. It's never me, it's always the other person. I love and appreciate the planet. I do. I repeatedly delude myself with those words.
For today, I can love the planet. I can love the sunshine streaming into my windows. I can love the birds and their chirping. And I can love the oxygen that the plants give us.
Blessed be the planet.
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