Many decades ago I worked as an adult education administrator in a rural part of Wisconsin. I interacted with farmers frequently and quickly became schooled myself on the difference between “ living with the land” and “ living off of the land”. These farmers had a spiritual bond, a sacred trust based on their stewardship with the land. I’ve always felt called back to the earth itself as our first place of worship, a temple of God’s creation. Our world today so frequently separates us from this earthly home. Cars, planes, phones, computers all disruptions to the natural rhythms of my Wisconsin farmers. No wonder it is so easy for someone to objectify care for the earth as a choice, when it so obviously is the most basic human responsibility to life. Walking a piece of ground everyday with reverence is a going home of significance. Immersion in nature and the land is essential to preserving our humanity. The earth may eventually reclaim itself. Not so for us if we forget or ignore this lesson.
Harmony
