Our mother….Gaia…is fed up it seems. Not only did she decide to have a tantrum with her cyclone, leaving hundreds of thousands of people forever affected, but she is burning land in Florida and on the eve of Mothers Day she heaved a great sigh of disgust leaving China on its knees. Only a short distance from where I am living an entire town was destroyed by a tornado and will never be rebuilt…simply relocated they say. Each of these unfathomable outbursts by mother nature happened in one week and is meant to get our attention. I would be hard pressed to believe anything other than the Earth we live on is simply outraged.
Like any protesting body, she is no different in her direct and clear message that we as a species are without question… expendable. Our hubris in thinking that we are in some sort of control over the natural world is being shoved in our face daily. We have paid even less attention to her warnings than we pay to the health of our own bodies. All to often we ignore the warning signs our body uses to get our attention when we are not taking care of our sacred trust to honor this temple of our Spirit. Migraine headaches, digestive disorders, depression, heart attacks and cancer vs. volcanos erupting, toxic and polluted oceans and rivers, global warming and earthquakes mirror one another. We are one and the same, our bodies and Mother Earth.
So, as the death toll rises in China and Cholera invades, as millions of acres of forest and land burns beyond recognition, as tornados increase and the Earth shudders with anger, I imagine that this is a final wake up call that we cannot afford to ignore for one more minute. We cannot remain lost in the delusion that we are untouchable or Kings of the planet. It is time to stop distracting ourselves by consuming more and more and watching hours of non-reality on our big screen plasma TV. It is time to stop distracting ourselves from the fact that we need to change, each one of us, wake up, become personally responsible, start behaving as if we are paying attention to the world under fire and do whatever it takes to clean up our lives, our bodies and our planet. As my mother said far to often, “I’ll only ask you once.”
