Praise… For Our Mother The Earth

The earth is a home with a heavenly view. The earth is a world of many colors. The sky is blue or gray or flame - the brown earth turns green and gold, the hills from mauve to amber. The earth wears gowns of snowy white or a velvet one of grass. Its veils are flowering petaled lace. Always changing for the seasons the earth is constantly rewarding. Gardens grow fruits of every kind and color, food for every taste and season. The plants feed and clothe us, the forest grows a roof to shelter us. And fields of waving grain on earth provide our daily bread.

The earth is a speck in a starry space, the earth is a billion years of spinning. The seeds of life may come from the sky but the earth is the womb in which we grow. In all life that lives here is one life. Everything is part of the whole and all is interwoven in an endless pattern of living and giving. Of outside worlds in the starry space some are lifeless, some are barren, one has air too thin for mankind to live in. Some worlds are so far from the sun they would be unbearably cold. The earth is a warm and friendly place. The earth is our mother and home.