Today's Journal
WHAT WE LOVE WE PROTECT
Gail Melix (Greenwater) is a member of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe of Plymouth, Mass. She wrote:“As the weeks go by, I come to the path with a greater ability for deep listening, reverence, and joy. Peace is easier to come by. Nature has taught me these things. What we love we protect. If we bear witness to the beauty and the suffering of all our relations on earth, we might be led to action: to be a voice for those who have no voice. The survival of life on earth as we know it depends on the relationship that humans have with Mother Earth. I come to the path every day with this question: What will I fall in love with today?”
‘What we love we protect.’ It is love for family, our blessings of homes, food and covering, for nature and all it’s beauty, for relationships, for work and provision, we protect what we love. Perhaps a greater understanding is learning to protect ourselves better by loving ourselves better.
‘What will we fall in love with today?’
“Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?
“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.” Jesus