Imagine our Earth silently, gently, turning in orbit around the sun. Our vast majestic Pacific and Atlantic oceans held against earth's global body by an invisible field of gravity. From a great distance, she looks radiant, glistening in the solar twilight like a sparkling blue sapphire, eternally alive, strong and yet so fragile.
Our beloved earth, beautiful, delicate, vulnerable rests gently out there in the vast expanse of space, as a great ship in a galactic harbor - oceans and mountains, vast ecosystems of life, streams, fields of sun and shade, forests and animals - from bugs to hippopatami. From a distance, far and away from here, Earth is an awesome jewel in the solar system and galaxy, so unlike any other. Our lives, her life, are exquisite. Ancient and new, everyday, life itself here is more precious than any of us can perceive or understand.
This morning, like almost any given morning, her life - our lives - is threatened by the ignorance of those who still fight in their own selfish egoic vain pursuits. Can violence resolve anything? Is war - after these many long millenia - any kind of a creative solution as we attempt to grow, evolve into the great beings of light and power our Creator envisioned at our birth about 200,000 years ago. The greatest threat is in our ignorance, our inability to see who we are, what we are, and our invaluable presence here on this precious earth amidst a vast and mysterious universe.
As many of you, I worry about our world, our future and wonder who else hopes for peace, really hopes for peace and is willing to share our unique individual interests as olive branches extended as gifts of love to those who might bring theirs also to this great gathering under the sun.
My prayer has always been for peace, for believing anew that we can do this - that we can hold the thought - unlike any other time in Earth history - that we will find a way to love, to reach deep within our hearts, to face our fears, our own inner demons, and have the courage to embrace our enemy, those who are different, who are weaker, who are poorer, who are less evolved, less likeable, even those who are ignorant and selfish, rude and mean, belittling because they themselves are little and too afraid to admit it to themselves. We must love the unloveable if we are going to heal our precious Earth.
So, this morning, I pray that we are all - the entire Earth - wrapped in love and protection. May we be protected from ourselves and be held gently in the arms of our creator, our beloved God, safe, forever.
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