I made a promise to myself when I began blogging, that I would stay away from the two subjects of conversation that inevitably end up with either people folding their arms and looking away from each other, or people throwing haymakers at one another.
Those two subjects would be politics and religion.
Because the two are so prominent in the news these days, (what days are they not?) I thought I would cover them in one quick bloggy statement:
“Let me put my hand on the bible and swear to you that I won’t write about the upcoming election.”
‘Nuff said.
Today is Good Friday.
Today is also Earth Day.
I hope some day, Earth Day will mean as much to people as their politics or their chosen faith.
Wait, let me rephrase that:
I hope some day, Earth Day will mean more to people than their politics or their chosen faith.
Mother Earth at the very least, deserves equal billing.
If God created Earth, then that leaves politics to create and enforce decisions to make sure it’s kept healthy and unspoiled. A little faith in the human race wouldn’t hurt either.
I’ll show you a picture now, of the moment that changed more people’s minds about the Earth and its delicate environment than any other event in history to date:
In December of 1968, newspapers and magazines first published this remarkable picture. It was the first time anyone on the Earth had looked at a color photograph of our planet from space.
It wasn’t from a movie set, or a comic book. It was real and authentic and all together overwhelming.
Until then, people only saw the moon and stars and had never looked at an actual photograph of the world they were living on.
The picture is so quiet. So astonishing.
It began changing the way people were thinking about how we were treating this magnificent home of ours.
So people started talking about this picture, which led to meetings of people in larger groups, which began forcing governments to concentrate more on environmental issues and the responsibility we all have as residents on this planet to maintain and improve what we have been handed down through the short time people have been living on good ‘ole Mother Earth.
If you compressed the lifespan of Earth so far, into one year, human existence on the planet would only amount to 2 seconds of one day out of the 365.
Mother Earth is everything. You and I are here for a very short time and she knows that.
That’s why she puts up with us even though, we treat her so poorly.
Happy Earth Day!
At the very least, think of her today as much as your politics and religion.
