{"id":1188,"date":"2012-07-06T10:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:04:04","slug":"a-letter-to-mother-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/07\/a-letter-to-mother-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Dear Mother Earth,<\/p>\n

It has been an honor for me to walk on your sand at the beach, just so I can glimpse the infinite ocean, and watch the glorious sun set and rise each day. It has been an honor to walk your mountains, hills, and travel by water, air, car, and walking. Thank you for allowing me the freedom to build my house on you, raise my family on you, and play with others on you. Thank you for allowing me the freedom to run naked and roll on the grass with a lover and whisper sweet every things in their ear. Thank you for allowing me the freedom to pitch my tent alone in your wilderness and be among the animals and deep silence. \u00a0Thank you for allowing the children to play and laugh on you. \u00a0Thank you for the sky with its clouds, sun, birds, and all its beautiful colors. \u00a0Thank you for showing me that life has seasons, change, and that its natural. \u00a0Thank you for the depths of the ocean and how it reminds me of the depth of this soul. \u00a0Which I long to connect with everyday.<\/p>\n

Thank you for the fruit, all the different fruits and vegetables. Thank you for feeding all of us and not judging any of us. Thank you for allowing us the freedom to be ourselves on you. Thank you for the variety of tree\u2019s, plant\u2019s, animals. So many varieties of life you nurture freely and lovingly. \u00a0Thank you for not judging us, when we judge and take from you. We don\u2019t mean it, we are lost in our minds and we are scared to change, love, and wake up. We want to please each other so much but we fail to acknowledge our own love and beauty first. We are \u00a0a selfish lot. \u00a0We don\u2019t care to nurture ourselves, change, and go with the flow. \u00a0We don\u2019t want to look at you sometimes and appreciate you because it reminds us that we are scared to look at ourselves.<\/p>\n

We are so sorry for taking advantage of you. Creating wars on you. Competing, comparing, taking, stealing, killing, murdering, and hating on you. \u00a0We are. \u00a0We are just flat out scared to look at you Mother. \u00a0You continue to show us unconditional love and forgiveness. \u00a0And yet, we don\u2019t learn. We drill for oil, but we don\u2019t look to the sun for life and energy. We are greedy and want more. As your children we are sorry. \u00a0We are scared, frightened, and tormented by a story of the past, of guilt, of shame, of many things. \u00a0We are scared to wake up. We are selfish beyond belief\u2019s. \u00a0Our beliefs are selfish, imposed, and and our stories continue to create death and destruction and yet we fail to understand that we are life itself. \u00a0We are sorry our our theology has excluded the feminine. You are all. Forgive us for this. The feminine is life, is creation itself, and without it, none of us would be here. It is through the feminine that life is given. May we come to learn to respect it again. May we value, respect, and appreciate the feminine in each of us.<\/p>\n

We the world, we your children, we your family, whether we know it or not, need you now more then ever. \u00a0It must be tiring. Because you are our Mother. You have nurtured, loved us, cared for us, and we don\u2019t care. We want more, more, more, and we live in a world of quicker service and yet we are more distant than ever. \u00a0I write this to honor the feminine, and to say we are sorry for taking you for granted. \u00a0Not loving you, not listening to you, not caring for you, not praying for you, and not loving you. For you keep showing up and we keep hiding, running, and playing war on you. \u00a0We will learn, or we will lose you. \u00a0Thank you. As we wake up to the heart, we will wake up to the feminine, the divine, the real, and understand receptivity, unconditional love, forgiveness, and real peace. Right now we are children who have forgotten to be childlike and listen and respect and value the divine feminine called you- Mother Earth. \u00a0We are thankful and so sorry for our actions. \u00a0I know you forgive us, but know we are asking to be forgiven as well, for we acknowledge our wrongs.<\/p>\n

Today I will lay down on your grass, and allow you to love me. \u00a0There I will be reminded that I am safe, cared for, and loved.<\/p>\n

Love you Great Mother- xo<\/p>\n

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