Front cover from, ‘The Angel Book of Hours’ by Lucian Eyers © 2010
This week we saw photographs published by J Henry Fair. His ‘Spectacular aerial images show the devastation man has wreaked on America.
Pollution is exposed on a massive scale, creating striking vivid colours that highlight the scars of spillages, open cast mining, chemical and oil leaks, industrial decay and deforestation’. 1
Stored sulphur is dramatically veined by a blood-red polluted river at Fort McMurray.
A pond swirled with the world's most widely used herbicide, which is manufactured in nearby Luling, Texas.
The shocking red colour marks where the earth has been scarred by Bauxite waste from aluminium production, which contains significant amounts of heavy metal contamination. Pictured at Darrow, Louisiana.
Swirls are oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon spills at the Gulf Macondo well as it floats on the Gulf of Mexico.
On a positive note, I was moved to see photographs of a gorilla and her offspring. It reminded me how motherhood is relative to our stage of spiritual development and is an ever-changing process.
When we are children, we learn the lesson of trust. Later as a parent we have the opportunity to develop unconditional love.
So what happens once we master this?
There is another love which we must also learn. It is a state of ‘Oneness.’ It embraces everything around us and asks that we love and honour the Mother of our Earth and all that exists within Her.
The list is a long one and extends to every living creature including every leaf and rock. You may think this is too much to expect of anyone. To many the Earth is just a soulless supply of resources to exploit, but this could not be further from the truth. Once we learn to truly honour our Earth we can then extend this love to our Universe and then to the Cosmos, which is all of creation.
I promised some dear friends this weekend that I would discuss healing which is also related to what I have to say on motherhood. They have a friend who is ill and they wished to be reminded of how we can give healing to those we love. Healing is given always from the heart. It is from here your heart chakra radiates love. Ask for healing, imagine it and be grateful for the healing you have received and given. We can also send healing to our Earth itself. Source does not intend us to be victims on our planet, waiting to endure disaster or experience joy, depending on good or bad luck. We are encouraged to be Masters, creating a future of happiness and fulfilment based on our actions and thoughts.
My illustration below is from a story about how a child heals his grandmother and illustrates this power of healing, which we all have within us. In this poem Father Christmas helps a little boy to realise the magic he has within him. It reminds us that motherhood extends beyond the parent and its child and is the process of caring for those who are in need of our support. Our ever-caring Mother Earth is also now in need of healing. When we are children we act irresponsibly because we know no better and we look to our parents for guidance. But we must now expand our sense of motherhood to the Mother of our Earth and act as adults in order to sustain a future for our children. This is the state of 'Oneness'.
Our human mother once marvelled at us when we were first born. Yet our Great Mother – Gaia does this still. Remember from where we came and spare a thought for our Mother of our Earth. A Mother who loves us dearly, asks for nothing – yet gives us the ‘World’.
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If you would like to purchase this poem and others from, 'The Little Angel Book of Hours,' you can as an eBook via our website at:
‘Timmy’s Gran’, is taken from, ‘The Little Angel Book of Hours’ by Lucian Eyers © 2010
1. Mail Online 26th October 2011 ‘Polluted America: Amazingly colourful aerial pictures that highlight damage to Earth wrought by industry'.
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