IMAGINE BEAUTY

“Beauty before me, behind me, below me, above me, all around me, In beauty, I have spoken,” Annie Kahn, Navajo Native-American Indian.

Imagine a place where the mountains touch the sky and kiss the sun. A primitive and rugged beauty lost in time to make dreams feel so very real. Probably, the last unspoiled remnant of truly wilderness escape from human intrusion, where nature is alive with sensational and awe-inspiring, magical glory.

You must listen to the quiet breezes and minute taps upon your face, as the wind soothes so gently, while invading your consciousness of mind, body, and spirit. Feel the warmth of the sun dancing about your body, as it slowly caresses and tingles every inch of your body. The sun refreshes and reinvigorates your bodily energies to flow through your heart, and burst out through your fingers and toes, back into the energies all around you in God’s playground called nature.

Now take a deep, huge, larger-than-life, breath of air and slowly exhale, so it floats ever so high into the mountains to make a subtle presence known. You are special and precious, a gift to the world, yet one that must co-exist with all the other living matter on earth. You are to be a steward, responsible for the care of all living creatures, including plants and animals, rattlesnakes and tarantulas, scorpions and mountain lions, Mexican pinyon pine to pricklypear cactus, and everything high and low and in-between, including, and most especially human life. All living matter on earth and the infinite universe must be protected, conserved, and most of all respected for its intricate and delicate value and dignity it offers, just for the sake of its being. Everything on earth was created by a boundless universal force beyond our comprehension, which makes it holy and pure. No one creature, especially human creatures have the authority or supremacy to destroy any other living matter for the sake of convenience, fun, sport, hate, revenge, greed or profit and most of all, irresponsible and immoral violence and terrorism.

However, we do have the right and privilege to learn, understand, and appreciate one another for our sheer interconnectedness towards the balance of the circle of life. Everyone and everything, including the awesome majesty of the Chisos Mountains to the sometimes ugliness of politicians and terrorists,(they could be the same at times), deserve life and love! You or I or even the President of the U.S. can not, should not, and must not ever diminish or exterminate any life to be less important than their very own. In the Great Creator’s eyes we are all equally important, whether we live in Mexico to Argentina, South Africa to Egypt, Palestine to China, Australia to Cuba, or the U.S. to Europe. We are of extreme value and importance, whether we are dirt poor, living off welfare in Burlington, Vermont or ultra-rich living in a gated mansion in Naples, Florida. We are of the same one God, whether we are black or white, Muslim or Christian. We are of the same human race, created for the common, collective good of all the world. God bless us citizens of the world, creatures big and small upon the gorgeous landscape and scenery of this green planet Earth, for which we all call home.

Our home is rich in diversity. Just think for a moment about the Big Bend country in Texas. On this trail into the heart of the high Chisos Mountains Basin, I will gradually hike upward along the northern slope of Casa Grande to an elevation of some 6,800 feet, a mile high peak. It is an oasis of green surrounded by a dry ocean of vast Chihuahuan Desert. It’s a bit of paradise right here on earth. This area is ideal for an abundance of vegetation and wildlife in this woodland “island” consisting of Mexican Pinyon Pines, Mexican drooping junipers, oaks, and the Texas Madrone trees.

Can you smell those luscious pines, so fresh and pure? I can smell the pines! I just love the smell of pines, they make everything smell so clean and pure, even the polluted air smells much better.

Trees do purify the air we breathe. In fact, the more trees we plant, and don’t clear-cut forests, especially old-growth, the cleaner our air will become, lessening the greenhouse effect, which is causing large-scale global warming trends.

Will we die from this global warming? Unfortunately, yea, someday, due to global warming our earth will die, along with every living being. There will be no food supply! We will perish or vanish from the face of the earth.

Isn’t our “great” U.S. doing something to help end this fatal and murdering global warming trend?

In fact, our so-called great country is most to blame, for we Americans are the biggest polluters in the world. We consume and waste more fossil fuels than all of the rest of the world combined. We are dependent on oil, rather than developing alternative sources of energy. We go to war and kill human life just for the sake of oil. Our extremely selfish foreign policy in the Middle East is just about oil and greed. Our government makes noble proclamations that we are furthering freedom, democracy, and human rights, but that is all a farce, a front to protect our national interests, albeit money and oil, (Satan’s workshop). So, we continue to plunder, rape, murder, and destroy the environment, and the innocent people throughout the world, including anyone who has some courage to stand up to the evil Goliath,(Bush & Oil Corporations). More times than not, our country stands united to protect money, not God’s living and loving creatures. It’s all about capitalism, not freedom, democracy, and morality!

My heart feels like bursting open with love, for it was good for my skin to touch the soil, sand, and rock of this earth, and to walk barefoot along the sacred Rio Grande River shores of Texas, USA and Mexico. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and most of all healing for my mind, heart and soul. Can you feel the refreshing rush of cool water upon my toes? So, in summation, our land, our faith, our environment, and our very life must become one with God and the universe.

“When we show respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us,” Arapaho Native-American Indian proverb.

God Bless the World!