destructive humans

All types of life; animals, plants, humans, fish, and flowers are sacred and serve a purpose. We, the human race, believe that everything is subject to our needs and desires. We don't understand the impact we are having on the world around us and inevitably ourselves. When I see a mounted deer on the wall or a dead opossum on the side of the road, I feel pain. I feel sad not only for the deer with glassed over eyes hanging on the wall but mostly for the humans. Humans have lost themselves, lost their sensitivity to life and love and replaced it with facades of happiness.

Last week I had to water flowers and had to drag hoses across club house lawns and streets. When I returned to my hose after turning the water on there was a rabbit lying in my hose path; dead. This jolted me to see him up close with his guts hanging out. All he wanted to do was get to the other side, maybe back to his burrow but because humans have to drive around in 2 ton pieces of metal his heart was squashed. I personally have ran over a squirrl and I am sure countless other species that I am unaware of but never dealt with the consequences, instead of scraping the corpse off the street and burrying it, I drive away sad, singing a derdge to the lost one. But that rabbit and I were personnally connected at that moment and I had to take responsibility and embrace the fact that I killed this rabbit as I burried him in the woods.

Most humans don't even consider the impact that the gasoline alone has on people and the environment all around the world. Why? Why can't humans use their legs? When the 'settlers' first arrived in the Americas they used to ride on Native Americans backs. So, it's not human beings... because the Natives and other indigenous tribes did not live like this... it's the 'westernized human.' I want to minimize my impact on the earth, maybe even try to help it and tend to it as it is instructed from the beginning, a type of natural law:
"And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth , to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food" and so it was so. -Genesis 1:30-31

So, NOTHING is supposed to eat meat? in a perfect world?! Think of the cattle and chicken industry, how we treat them so inhumanely for our quarter pounders and chicken nuggets... disgusting! Maybe it's just lack of knowledge and not lack of compassion? When God told us to have "dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on earth" I think he was putting us in charge of taking care of LIFE! What a wonderful, fulfilling job! There is so much death and destruction of LIFE with pavement and shopping malls, houses, desires, and fake things all around. BUT, there are cracks in the sidewalk that can bring forth the most beautiful flower and that means that there is HOPE if we humans become sensitve to LIFE and LOVE of all!