Contributed Prayers
THE KENTUCKY HILLS: A bad rap!
A poem submitted by Angelyn DeBord. She is an Appalachian-born and raised storyteller, actress, playwright and workshop leader from Gate City, VA. http://www.geocities.com/mtnstories/
I think of the children,
they’re young and they’re willing,
to lift up their wings and to fly.
But their way it is tangled,
don’t let them be mangled,
by the greed that we
pass down the line.
I lift mine eyes up now unto these hills
from whence always my help it has come.
I holler, “God help us,
Man’s greed it has scalped us,
for a strange definition of wealth.”
The mountains we love now,
God knows they’re our home now,
they’ve helped, they’ve held us for years.
But the land of our mother is now seeking cover
as the bulldozers strip off her crown.
What God has created,
Man’s greed’s laid asunder.
You can’t build a mountain back up.
But our children have voices,
let’s raise them to use them,
together we can save this land.
Yes, together we can save this land.
Say: together we can save this land.
Pray: together we can save this land.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:50 am
The 11th commandment:I remember rainforests we once had, now lost, unrecoverable,destroyed by greed, by insensitivity, and failure to understand a simple truth…..all the beauty of the earth is not ours, it was loaned to us by our children and all those yet to come….This sacred trust now violated, This pact with God broken, The understood unspoken commandment: Love the earth. Protect and preserve it. ” The earth was not placed here to be corrupted.” {It seems to me that God did not intend that we behave like a plague of locusts upon the earth.} Part of this is a paraphrase of a Kenyan proverb, and part quoted from Margie Richard/Sierra 98′.