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Earthly Ethos

Last year, on Earth Day, I preached a sermon in a church. At the end of the service, a nice lady came up to me and chided me for talking about the earth in church instead of preaching from the Bible. How an earthly topic could belong in a heavenly place, she thought. Ministers don 't preach about earth day because, it is considered a worldly topic. So much has changed in my spiritual life that I consider Earth Day as important as Christmas, Easter and other religious holy days.
It is not because I am a new age guru, a tree hugger or ardent environmentalist (which are usually used as pejorative terms.) It is because, I have reflected deeply about the unfathomable beauty, mystery and magnificence of this moving, yes, moving blue …show more content…

We are traveling in space; we don 't have to lift our bodies from the earth to see the beauty and the splendor of God 's creation; we only need to lift our minds...and open our eyes. But, that is the problem...our minds are small and our eyes are closed.
It is worthy of note that Mitchell uses the word divinity not God. God is a divisive term for many. Religious people fight over their definition of God and make declarations like, My God is bigger than your God. Divinity has an all-embracing quality to it. When we use divinity instead of God we are focusing on spirituality not religion. And our goal should be to evolve more each day as spiritual beings not as merely religious people.
When we see the earth as a whole from outer space, we can clearly see the connectedness and inter-dependence of all of us who live upon this planet. We have created imaginary boundaries, dividing ourselves into countries and states. We forget that in reality we are all living together, breathing the same air, drinking from the same water, eating food grown from the same earth.
We share everything on this planet with other people, whether we are conscious of it or not, and those people are our brothers and sisters. For example, the air that is in your lungs today was circulated yesterday through the lungs of somebody living in

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