This is an invitation to step into service, to choose to join a collective body of humans that deeply cares about our planet. Please read the Indigenous elders statement http://caretakersofmotherearth.com/. If you find resonance, consider signing, asking your own questions, and joining us with good minds and prayer for the healing of life on Earth.
“The longest road you will ever have to walk is the sacred journey from your head to your heart.” Chief Phil Lane Jr. Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations
Our individual and collective humanity is a powerful force for life on Earth. It is the difference between life and death of all creation.
Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples of North and South America have gathered for the first time releasing a unified statement and calling to the world.
After 4 days in sacred ceremony, they are asking the global community to wake up and move towards becoming a coherent body that is vested in planetary health, in creating a world where our actions enable our children and our children’s children to live a life with sunlight, fresh foods, air, clean water, butterflies, fish, buffalo and all of the beautiful life around us. They are taking their statement to the UN to garner immediate support for moral collective action on Fukushima’s vulnerable nuclear power plant’s condition. Highlighting the undeniable compounding and cumulative devastation and the moral responsibilities to ensure life for all future generations.
As we move towards winter, summer in the Southern hemisphere and the end of 2013, it is time to reflect upon our lives:
- How am I living this life? Am I living in alignment with my values and with the natural world?
- How am I being of service? and,
- What am I ready to let go of so that I can say ‘yes’ to something much more meaningful?
Both individually and collectively our world needs us to take time to remember, to reflect upon what is being called of each of us. The power of our choices is evident. As interdependent beings, everything we do impacts the whole. Are we each making conscious choices?
In our actions:
Are we furthering life or are we taking it away?
Are we adding to the continuity of life or are we destroying life?
Are we creating unity or are we creating separation?
From relationships to work-life balance to consumption patterns, what needs our attention? What needs shifting? How are we connecting to our global community? What do we feel called to serve?
As our world becomes increasingly complex, as the challenges facing us become more explicit, is humanity called to live in service to life? Are we called to move in accordance with what the world needs and to steward life on Earth? Do we choose to act beyond individual needs?
What becomes possible when humanity chooses to collectively care for the whole of this planet? What becomes possible when humanity chooses to have relationships that are inclusive of all life on Earth?
“To restore Earth’s balance, we need to shift from a philosophy of dominion over nature, dominion over self, to a relationship of understanding, respect of the Natural Laws and love for the beauty of the creative female energy of Mother Earth.” -Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Collectively we can make the difference. Individually we can start with our own footsteps.
The Indigenous Elders Statement is fulfilling upon responsibilities that have been passed down generation-to-generation. It is also based on all they are seeing by being on the land, having a direct connection and relationship with it; salmon disappearing, water being contaminated, land stripped, careless actions without end, a future at risk.
They are extremely concerned that we have reached the crossroads.
Read their important council statement that is for the life force of creation. Take a moment to take moral responsibility of your life and your choices, so that collectively we can become a force for supporting life and ensure that the Mother Earth – in all its beauty – is handed down to future generations.
Mother Earth is the source of life, to be cared for, not a resource to be exploited.
This is an invitation to step into service, to choose to join a collective body of humans that deeply cares about our planet. Please read the Indigenous elders statement http://caretakersofmotherearth.com/. If you find resonance, consider signing, asking your own questions, and joining us with good minds and prayer for the healing of life on Earth.
Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Believe that. Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are desperately needed to save the soul of this World. Did you think you were put here for something less?
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Spiritual Leader of the Great Sioux Nation
Click here to read the draft resolution- Reducing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear dangers.
