'lost child'

I don't know exactly how it happened but it did. Somewhere across the vast plains of time, they forgot that they were a part of something bigger. They forgot that they were, in fact, something else completely.

You see, human beings forgot that they were literally a part of an incredible Organism. Earth. Everything had its place and role in perfect flow. In some ways humans were the brain cells of this incredible body, given extraordinary powers of deduction and ability; they were tasked with taking the planet forward. But they took only humanity forward and even in that they did not. The first thing they did was to remove themselves from being a part of the planet and instead fought for control of it. They sought to own and control everything, even their own brothers and sisters and in doing so they drew far, far away from their mother.

And in that time she hurt.

Their planet recoiled as they continued to plunder her. They made slaves of many of their relatives the animals, birds and fish. They became cannibals, eating their own: not other humans but the other animals, birds and fish.
They poured chemicals into their water sources. Would you pour waste into your yard? Yet somehow they did. They designed a new world with human beings on the throne. And to think they were simply just one cellular variation that was part of the organism they called Home.

So eventually, when she had been hurt so badly by them that even her love for them was in doubt, she decided to act. She decided they needed to learn that they were only one little part of this wonderful planet; and make no mistake, the planet's single job is to flourish. In her actions though, she acted from love. And so she released a virus onto them. One that was spread by touch. And so it went… and their world suddenly changed. She locked them away. Quarantine.

It didn’t take long for the planet to heal. It was miraculous in fact. It didn’t take a long for them to see that the earth wanted her space back. She needed time to heal; time, whilst they would be limited in their daily destruction wrapped in civilisation. In fact, to be fair, all she wanted was her fair share. And even in that she still wanted to share. It wasn’t hers. She didn’t pretend it was. It wasn’t theirs alone. She wanted to remind them the planet was ‘them’. They were part of one Being.

The people didn’t know that they were part of the Earth. They didn’t realise that they were one Organism.

Well their home, their body is sending them a message. She will remove them if they don’t remember. They are only a part of the amazing organism. Gaia, Mother Earth, Home, their real body.

Many of them can’t wait for life to return to how it was. To some semblance of normality.
I pray that more of them are wondering, where to from here? This is a great time of cleansing and rebuilding. I would hope each of them is reimagining their role in the world and the way the world works. I hope they don’t solve this crisis too easily without reproach and go straight back to business as usual.

Mother Earth is hoping for the same…