The Beauty of Nature

As we awake in the early morning we are sometimes greeted by the most remarkable view imaginable. We may view the sunrise slowly emerging from below the distant horizon and casting brilliant orange-red rays through barren trees and glistening off crystalline specks of dazzling snow flakes. This virtually indescribable sight flashes by so quickly that unless we are a the right place at the right moment this gift from nature is like an empty trick or treat bag at Halloween.The child in us suffers a huge disappointment when that occurs, but if we miss the spectacular gift that nature offers as the sun rises we seldom give it a second thought.

Natures gifts are free and available to us wherever we live. Sometimes they require special effort to realize. Sometimes we must make an effort to invite them into our lives. But they are always beckoning us and awaiting our appreciation and awe.

Nature's gifts are given with only one simple caveat. We the caretaker's of our planet are asked by nature to really care. We are on Earth to propagate and foster life , but unless we care about the gifts from nature we are bound to destroy them. We have a choice. Live in harmony with nature and be blessed by the gifts bestowed, or disregard our mutually inter and intra-dependent relationships and suffer the consequences of a deteriorating environment and resource wars. We have the choice to embrace and sustain our planets gifts to us for all life or to use them for our self fulfillment and greed.

If we allow our senses to accept the gifts from nature while recognizing and acknowledging our obligation to sustain and share them with all life on the planet Earth then we shall make a huge step forward towards peace and harmony on Earth. May the New Year allow each of us to join nature in harmony and each other in peace.

The Human Challange

We mortals are surrounded by acts of hate, belligerence, selfishness, and greed daily. But we are also surrounded by acts of kindness, love, hopefulness, and charity as well. Often the challenge we face is to search out and embrace the latter elements and brush aside the former. Sometimes we succeed, while all too frequently we fail.

As the new year approaches let us all take the time to contemplate how the world could exist if each of us were to truly embrace kindness, love, hopefulness, and charity in everything we undertake. We can collectively change the world we occupy and create a world that most of us envision, if we accept our responsibility to become individual torchbearers and treat all others as we would have them act toward us.

Humankind must ultimately understand the fragility of life and the interdependence that we must cultivate between all races, religions, and economic strata to survive peacefully. This balance is further dependent upon our harmonious linkage with the earth's natural resources including the gifts of clean air, pure water, unpolluted land, and nature's plants and animals.

As we, the temporary occupants of earth, proceed on our life's journey we are obliged to sustain these resources for future inhabitants of earth as well.
Let us individually face this Human Challenge and live our lives to generate kindness,love, hopefulness, charity, and earth's sustenance wherever that journey takes us.

Our Purpose on Earth

Here we are folks rotating about in an orbit attached to earth by the mysterious force of gravity and linked to one another by invisible electromagnetic waves that enable us to communicate with unknown millions of other humans. We are collectively but a speck in the galaxy that binds us and are but a micronano speck in the greater universe that we occupy. We are truly an insignificant infinitesimally small part of an incomprehensible universe. Yet we partake in this thing called life and believe that our HUMAN WAY is the only way. This Human Way has led our amoebic colony on Earth to near devastation and imminent self annihilation. We are destroying our life sustaining environment, we kill each other in virtually perpetual wars, we fester in blood letting genocide, and we allow those in power to rule with disdain for those under their yokes of power. As we humans proliferate, and new born humans enter the universe, these innocent babes become ensnared in the cauldron of devastation and self annihilation that characterizes our present occupancy of Earth. Are devastation and self annihilation our purpose on Earth? If so why breed more? If not, and I think not, what must we do to alter our pathway?

Let us have a discourse on the right Human Way to create a noble and meaningful purpose for our moments on Earth. We represent an invisible nano speck in the universe and yet the turmoil that we create for ourselves degrades the purpose for human existence, and the very reason for life. Are we truly thinking animals or are we but puppets driven by puppet masters who believe that their dominance over we puppets is their rightful purpose on Earth?

Let us all stand back and view our actions or inactions as if we are spectators in space. Are we proud of our actions? Are we a part of the guiding light of our universe that has brought life to our nano speck of matter called Earth, or are we indifferent momentary blips on our planetary trip destined for self destruction?

If we consider life is precious and truly believe that man wrought annihilation and destruction is wrong it becomes imperative to change the pathway to the true and enlightened Human Way. Let us embark on this journey this very moment.

Lets us establish the true Human Way for all the occupants of planet Earth. Become a force for goodness on earth and work for brotherhood, love, benevolence, peace, and humanity so that the seeds spread from our planet may help generate a Human Way that tells our creator that we are grateful for our mysterious journey and will always demonstrate our gratitude by taking actions that acknowledges the goodness we have received and thereby alters our Human Way on a path to peace and harmony with nature and one another.