I really didn't do much to celebrate earth day, except remind people what day it was. Although I do enjoy my role as a steward of the gift of the earth and its life forms, I didn't have time to do anything "special". I spend a lot of my time doing "earthy" things anyway.
Note that I said earlier that I'm a steward of the earth. I don't want to be its saviour, redeemer, or whatever else you may think of, since it's going to cease to exist sometime anyway. I believe it's good for people to take care of the earth because it's one of God's gifts to us, not because its spirit and mine are entwined in one big fat cosmic one-ness. Unfortunately, it seems like all my environmental friends are rather monistic about the earth, and they aren't the only ones. I was trying to find some quotes about nature to use in an art project, and more than half of what I found had at least an overtone of pantheistic monism, if not more. Then I got the idea that a search of Bible verses might give more of what I was looking for, and everything turned out nicely. But now I ramble. I do that a lot.
Anyway... to sum up what I've been trying to get at here, do something nice to the world as a service to others or as a token of appreciation to the God who gave is to us. Not because we all share the same essence of spiritual being that unites the world. We don't.
And with that, I wish you a Happy Earth Day once more.
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My favorite nature quote (which invariably caused you to cross my mind):
"One of ["Leaf by Niggle"]'s sources was a great-limbed poplar tree that I could see even lying in bed. It was suddenly lopped and mutilated by its owner, I do not know why. It is cut down now, a less barbarous punishment for any crimes it may have been accused of, such as being large and alive. I do not think it had any friends, or any mourners, except myself and a pair of owls"
-J.R.R. Tolkien, Introductory Note to "Tree and Leaf."
I rather like that quote.
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