Moon Bombs Tell Truth

The Moon is a giant reflector, an enormous mirror, who sends the light of the Sun back to Earth to illuminate our dark nights. The Moon shines light on our path through the shadows, and reminds us of the Sun when we cannot see him. Up close, her surface appears old and dusty, dented and crusty, but from a distance, she is beautiful and ever changing. Without the Moon, there would be no life on Earth at all. None.

Today, the most honored, global prize of peace was awarded to the President of the United States of America. The greatest award of peace for the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. And yet, the very same day, the brilliant scientists at NASA, sent an 80 million dollar bomb to bang against the face of the moon.

Is there another message here? What does Luna reflect to Earth's people today? 

On the one hand, America represents the best and the brightest of human ideas; freedom, justice, liberty, and equal opportunity for all. And on the other hand, the American corporate war machine is the greatest cause of the destruction of Earth's habitat, of the suffering and injustice of people and innocent creatures everywhere, of an endless wave of genocide across the earth. 

How can both be true at the same time? 

How can America speak of freedom while she enslaves her neighbors to the south? How can she promote the destruction of entire mountain ranges just to power another light bulb?

Today the moon is reflecting the deepest divide within humanity, the difference between words and deeds. The President of America speaks with beauty of peace and global healing between nations, a magnificent message to every side of the globe.

And yet this same President sends millions and millions of dollars to yet another war that can never be won. The generals in America always get more money for bombs, and tanks and guns, but there is nothing for the medicines to heal the sick children who suffer and cry out in pain.

When will America realize the potential of her dreams? When will America claim her power to heal, to help, to teach, to inspire? Why does the man who holds the hopes of millions send those same poor children to die fighting a war that never ends?

The Moon is our first Teacher, our Grandmother, our Timekeeper. Today she was also our Truth Teller.

The Best Way to know GOD

Bear and Kingfisher were sitting by the crystal clear, icy cold river, watching the salmon run upstream. Bear says, " I know the best way catch salmon." Kingfisher says, "oh yeah, show me." 

So Bear wades into the middle of the river, where the fish are leaping upstream, and he grabs a big one with his paws in one fluid movement. "See?" he says to Kingfisher, "my way is the best way to catch salmon."

"You're nuts!" says Kingfisher, "that takes so long! Only I know the best way to catch salmon. Watch me!" So Kingfisher jumps from his branch among the cedars, diving straight down, and spears a beautiful, shiny salmon with his sharp, strong beak. "See?" says Kingfisher, "My way is the best way to catch salmon." 

"My brothers!" says a voice from high above. "You are both wrong. Only I know the best way to catch salmon. Watch me." So Eagle watches the river for a moment, and then swoops down, talons outstretched, to snatch a huge fish with both claws and lands beside the river.

Now old brother Coyote has been watching all along from behind the nootka rose bushes, and at this moment he swaggers out to boast louder than all the rest. 

"MY BROTHERS!" says Coyote "None of you has any idea how best to catch these salmon. Only I can show you how." 

"Impossible!" says Bear.

"Ridiculous!" says Kingfisher.

"Prove it!" says Eagle

"OK!" says Coyote "Look over there, across the river, and I will show you."

So they all look in the other direction, for only a minute or two. And in that instant, Coyote gathers all the fish the others have already caught, and runs off with them, laughing all the way.

© 2009 emtyler