The earth is our mother - a post for mother’s day

Photo ekrem-osmanoglu

It’s a great day for today.  It’s that day every year when sons and daughters are gifting their Mums flowers, chocolates, breakfast in bed to thank and honour them.  When we recognise the often invisible work and support we receive from our Mams. 

Aunties, stepmums, grannies are all being honoured and thanked    for the ‘mammying’ they’ve done for the loved young ones close to them.

It’s a day to remember those families where Dad plays Dad and Mum.  And let’s take a moment too to remember with gratitude the mentors who have had a positive ‘mammy’ influence on our lives - helpful teachers, senior work colleagues, kindly neighbours – who were instinctively stepping in to help when needed without even thinking about it, instinctively playing ‘mummy’. 

And then there’s Mother Earth without whom we children couldn’t live at all.   She provides us with Air, Water, and Food.  Her very being allows us to live and to thrive.  To Live.  Her fresh air provides us with oxygen, her water keeps us hydrated and refreshes us with cups of tea and glasses of wine.  Her ground, which we walk on every day without even thinking about it, provides our vegetables and fruit.

As we potter about in our busy lives we hardly notice the seasons turning, the migrating birds, the weather patterns.  We pollute her air and fill her seas with plastic.  We spray her with toxic chemicals and while our four-legged friends don’t soil their beds, we think nothing of dumping tons of rubbish on our Mother Earth. 

From dawn to dusk on this Mothering Sunday let us notice and be grateful for our Mother Earth, for she supplies every single breath we take.  Let us remember, as we sit down to our family celebration, that she supplies all the food and drink at our table.   That without her, none of us would even be sitting at that table.  Let us walk slowly and breath thankfulness to the earth today.  Those flowers, chocolates and breakfast in bed all come from this blue planet.  The Earth is our Mother, she takes care of us, let us remember and take care of her everyday but especially on this Mothering Sunday.