“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Yesterday was 10/10/10.  From several different directions, I received requests to participate in global meditations for the survival of our planet and harmony among all who call it home.  Some urged me to participate for 10 minutes at 10:10 AM.  Others simply wanted us to pay attention to the day and send out healing prayers for our world.  I think it’s a wonderful thing to join with others in forming an intention for the healing of our Mother Earth, and I am not here to say that these events are without meaning.  I think that doing these healing things with others who also desire healing sends out powerful energy that affects us all.  What we do certainly can contribute to healing our world.

My question is this:  Why do we need a gimmick to remind us of the need for harmony and unity in preserving our world?  Shouldn’t we be aware every day of our collective need to spend time in meditating and also doing things that, in small ways that add  up, improve the state of our environment?  Today is 10/11.  Do we need another string of numbers to remind us to act?  Then I propose that on 10/11 at 12PM we all take the time to stop and send out prayers for global survival.  And let’s find whatever prompts we need to carry on with our shared intention for the healing of our world, every day and in whatever ways are available to each one of us.  For our Earth, let’s seek ways to clean the air and the water.  Let’s be serious about recycling and cleaning the litter that detracts from the beauty of our land.  Let’s look out for the places that sustain our wildlife and allow vegetation to thrive — apart from chemicals and poisons that support our cities and destroy Creation.  Let us act, one person at a time, to heal the discord and hurt among people.  Let us walk in love and spread kindness and forgiveness to all we meet.

Let’s take the power of the shared intentions of 10/10/10 and carry them with us each day.  Perhaps by the time we reach 11/11/11, there will be no need to rally people and raise their awareness.  Perhaps by then it will be a way of life.  Eleanor Roosevelt also said, “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”  Let’s harness the energy we have found through the collision of numbers and bring the dreams we have dreamed together into existence.  We must not let the things we fail to do destroy us.