[Dialogue] Mothers Day and Oil

[Colleen Smith]

I see the sun and the moon and the stars weeping as darkness spreads over the face of our beautiful, watery blue planet.
What is an appropriate response?
Colleen

--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Jeanette Stanfield <jstanfield at ica-associates.ca> wrote:


From: Jeanette Stanfield <jstanfield at ica-associates.ca>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Mothers Day and Oil
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Cc: "Springboard Listserv" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>, "Dialogue' Listserv" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 8:30 AM



Dear Colleagues, 


I woke up today thinking about the Thomas Berry poem John Cock put in his journal a while back: 



To the children
 To all the children
To the children who swim beneath
The waves of the sea, to those who live in
The soils of the Earth, to the children of the flowers
In the meadows and the trees in the forest, to
All those children who roam over the land
And the winged ones who fly with the winds,
To the human children too, that all the children
May go together into the future …….
 
And I heard the song We of Earth by Carolyn McDade.  A few of words include: 
We of Earth declare our responsiblity to the whole, to the future.  We on Earth 
declare our responsibility to the beautiful Gaia.


And meanwhile the oil gushes out on all these children .  


I wonder if there is not an opportunity here that this oil fire has caused.  I am not talking about
the angry response although that is certainly there.  I am talking about a consciousness raising 
response.  I remember the power of the Sorry Ceremonies in Australia to the Aboriginal People. 
In the first place it was an acknowledgement, a sacred rite of reconciliation.  The country as a whole
and many individuals experienced a new consciousness-a new experience of community stir within them.  


I wonder if this oil gush of destruction might occasion a Sorry Ceremony in America- a Sorry Ceremony to
Mother Earth and all of her children.   I can see thousands of people on the sands across the Gulf in a ceremony
as the oil comes in.  I see churches,mosques, temples, environmental groups, indigenous people, 
all those cultural creatives Hawken talks about in ceremony. 


I would love to know what you see.


Happy Mother's Day.


Jeanette Stanfield














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