What we ?abby would-be appreciators need
is something to get us up and moving—
something to make us truly thankful. What
better place to start than where we are and
what we are standing upon.
Dirt.
Forget the United States of America,
DIRT is the Great Melting Pot. Branches,
banana peels, coffee grounds, much-loved
and newly-deceased pets—they are all the
ingredients of soil. Once fallen, microbes,
bacteria and invertebrates get to work
breaking down the molecules that once
made up all those leaves, ?bers and fur
and, voila!—a rich melange is created that
has the nutritional umph to grow everything
from salad greens to Sitka spruces.
It’s a miracle, really.
Thank God for dirt!
And that’s just what’s under our feet.
Once you get started, the world suddenly
becomes a veritable jungle gym of miracles
on which to ?ex your gratitude muscles.
There’s air. And trees. And small woodland
creatures. All amazing in their own unique
ways—all somehow integral to health and
the sustenance of life on earth
And so we respond: Thank you, thank
you, thank you!
And then we pause. And consider that once
the inertia of indifference has been overcome
and the momentum of gratitude sets in, the
natural extension of all this thankfulness is
responsibility.
As the goodness
of the gifts of this
one precious earth are
felt and received we move from a place of
thankfulness to action, recognizing that
the Giver of these gifts has enlisted us as
co-stewards so that these gifts might be
preserved for other people, plants and
plankton to enjoy.
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