In the beginning, Mother Earth and Father Sky came together in Creation.

The plan for their work was written in the sky, as it is today; and a place was made for their many children.

Some of their children lived in the water.

Some spent most of their time in the air.

Some lived in the earth.

Some, like us, moved about on the surface of the earth.

And to help us remember the days of this creation, Father Sky and Mother Earth created children with their feet planted firmly in Mother Earth and their heads and arms reaching Fatherward to the sky.

These, the tallest of their children, would live together near the Sea. The Sea would water them with his mists, and cool them with his breezes.

And because these special ones marked the union of Father Sky and Mother Earth; Father Sky determined that these children could live forever.

To help them do this, Mother Earth gave them thick shaggy coats of bark to protect them from insects and from wild fires.

Father Sky taught their roots to grow wide and to twine themselves together, that the strong may support the weak.

And because like all children of Father Sky and Mother Earth, they must render themselves useful; our Father and Mother determined, that should the main trunk of one be taken, a circle of children would spring up from the roots to remember and to perpetuate the one who had given his life in service.

Father Sky and Mother Earth also taught these children to multiply with seeds.

But they made their cones small, and their life-bearing seeds even smaller--

Ever reminding us that from even the smallest, that which is greatest, that which is tallest, in due time can grow.

04/21/2014

Author's Note: . . . begun in church, finished at home--to be used for a "theme hike" at Camp Cutter, Bolder Creek, CA.

Posted on 04/21/2014
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