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The indigenous peoples have it right! Mother Earth has existed primarily to care for her multi-cultured inhabitants since the beginning of creation. But what has happened for centuries, and especially during our present decades and lifetime, must surely make her feel invisible, marginalized, abused, very weary of her children, incapable of continuing on and on, ad infinitum!
Our Creator God must also feel invisible, marginalized and overwhelmed with humankind’s lack of reverence, gratitude and reciprocal care of Mother Earth who has not only nurtured, given an abundance of life, air, riches, beauty beyond measure, but who is misunderstood, used up and abused without mercy!
If we are overwhelmed by images that break our hearts, situations that seem unredeemable, how must Mother Earth, Mother and Father God bear the pain of such knowledge in the light of their infinite love? A popular song of many years ago keeps singing in my head. Do you remember it? Please sing with me:
“Where have all the flowers gone/ long time passing...? When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?”
Renée Domeier, OSB
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