A Simple Way To Help
Earth
Earth is embracing form. Dust and stone forming ground and foundation.
The Below that stands under and reflects understanding. The womb of life fire that informs and nurtures the growth of seeds. Mineral law giving structure to essence.
Worms, roots and baby fox all grow here.
Does the cool richness of the Earth call to you?
Sky
East, South, West and North move here. Undivided sky shared by all. Sunrises, sunsets and stars unfold in the wondrous above. Moonbeams, rainbows and lightning shining through.
Air expanding endlessly in swirling dance. Sunlight fire glowing on butterfly wings.
Birds soar through wisps of clouds. The fluttering of leaves. Lungs filled with every breath.
What in the sky brings you awe and kindles your love?
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Ocean
Water's filling embrace of the shoreline. Tides, currents and weather.
Salt water outside. Salt water inside. Inner form makes both stem sap and artery blood full and plump.
Plankton, whales and jellyfish swim and drift in this watery world.
Which of the ocean's creatures swim inside your heart?
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Forest
Trees reaching between Earth and Sky. Sacrificing sunlight warmth carried to cool deep roots and the womb of earth.
Water, air and light transformed by chlorophyll chemistry of living leaf. A miracle mirror of man's vessels and hemoglobin.
Redwood and ash. Mushroom and moss. Monkey, toucan and tiger. Life woven together from root to canopy.
Do trees bring your eyes from high skies to humble earth in caring gratitude?
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Plains
Earth and Sky in endless horizon's touch. Savannah, grassland and cultivated fields beneath rainbow promises.
Wildebeest, prairie dog, wallaby and wheat. The storm and wind caress the grass. Colors of rainbow love expressed in flower. A cricket serenades the buffalo. The circle of life is sung here. Each serves the other.
How far are the horizons of my care? The circle of my life? The circle of my group? The circle of life?
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Desert
Rock and dry hardness. Perhaps a brief storm. Bright waves of sparkling sand and mirage. Beauty in shades and contrast.
Scorpion, snake, cactus and camel. Guarding water precious within. Lessons of harshness, measure and need. Dry to balance wet. Dry to know solid. Dry to know limit, self, boundary and edge.
Wetlands
Swamp, marsh and bog. Land and water in a slow flow of life.
Saw-grass and rice. Alligator, frog and bird. Abundance untold. Our bodies, too, are dry and wet. Form and water mix and strain through each other.
What life in this still flow do you most appreciate?
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Lakes and Rivers

Churning rapids into still deepness. Falling rains arrested and held in movement. Lymph and blood vessels of the Earth. Life and cleansing to the land.

Fish and crawdad. Willow and dragonfly. Frogs croaking a love song.
What beauty here sings in your heart
and will?
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Mountains
Cliff and cornice snow melting into rivers. Inner volcano fire burning earth to ash. Tall form drawing eyes upward to inspiration and goal.
Yak, marmot, condor and pine growing in the heights.
The four directions have a fifth. This is the vertical. Or is it the within? Vertical heavens or interior depths? Above makes below and below makes above. High vision is deepened in the valley. Where is the door to this wonder?
What high inspiration calls you to Eco-Prayer and Good Will?
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Poles
Poles are axis and orientation. A sovereign intention for life. The royal scepter of the Earth. The angle of the Earth's tilted axis in the solar system is reproduced in the angle of the human heart in its chest.
Winter storms frozen to endless white. Glaciers glistening and calving. Magnetic sun shield in aurora glory. Solid ice melting to water and back again by the sun's fiery measure. White bear, seal, penguin and narwhal dive here.
What is the orientation of your caring and work? What in your personal kingdom do you hold in prayer and
good will?
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Local
Rocks, river, beech or reef. Trees, birds and animals. Our sense of place and home informs who we are.
What in nature near your home brings beauty and rhythm to your life?
Wise compassion in Eco-Prayer, Good Will.
Pray, intend and act both globally and locally.
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