Irene’s Love the Earth Hike

And what it turned into

Irene and her friends had been celebrating Earth Day together for eight years. Each year a new friend was recruited. Now there were fifteen people going on Irene’s ‘Love the Earth Hike.’

At first the hike was mostly about picking up trash. Equipped with garbage bags and sticks with nails on one end, they went to local state parks and other recreation areas and picked up trash until everyone’s bags were full. Trash is usually quite plentiful in these areas.

But then Irene read, The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto. The book provided scientific evidence of how water responds to both positive and negative vibrations projected by humans onto the water. Irene figured that if water responds to human vibration so must everything else; rocks, soil, trees, birds, grass. She figured that Mother Earth must respond thusly.

So the annual Love the Earth Hikes became about more than just picking up trash. All the members of the group still brought their trash bags and pointy sticks but after the picking up of trash was over they gathered together overlooking some beautiful vista and they would empty their minds of thoughts and together project as much love and joy as they could out into nature. Surely Mother Earth would feel that cumulative love and respond.

Irene now felt that Earth Day should be about more than just picking up trash and protesting environmental polluters. It should be more than just heightening awareness of environmental problems. Instead of just focusing on the problems it should be a day when we love Mother Earth as intensely as we can. It should be a day of connecting in love to the entity that is our planet.

This year the group went to Lake Dahteste, a small regional lake that had suffered a lot of pollution from chemical run-off from nearby agricultural fields. The fish and amphibian populations had significantly diminished as well as the bird populations that fed on the fish and amphibians.

After the trash pickup everyone spread out in a circle around the lake. Clearing their minds of all thoughts, the group then projected strong love vibrations into the lake for close to half an hour.

Afterwards the group returned to where their vehicles were parked. Everyone was in an euphoric mood. After tossing the trash bags in the back of Irene’s pickup truck they brought out coolers and bags of food from their vehicles and proceeded to have a group picnic on the shore of the lake.

When the picnic was over Irene spoke up, “I want to thank each and every one of you for coming on this year’s Love the Earth Hike. I really feel like we have made a difference. I strongly believe that Mother Earth felt our love.”

“Personally, I have taken to spending 10 to 20 minutes every day sending my love to Mother Earth. It is something each of us can do individually when we have the chance. But when we do it together as a group I think the love increases exponentially.”

“So why are we doing this only one day a year — only on Earth Day? How about going on a Love the Earth Hike once every month?”

Cheers erupted from the group. Everyone agreed.

Just then a great blue heron came flying across the lake and landed on the shore just about twenty meters away from the group. Everyone in the group fell silent as they stared at the magnificent bird.

The heron just stood there staring at the group for several minutes before it took off in flight back out across the lake.

Tears were pouring down Irene’s face. She was convinced that the heron was saying thank you.

Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved. This is a work of fiction. Stories by White Feather

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