Easter Greeting

 

Easter Greeting – 2024

 

Flowers and flowering trees

have braved the work of Spring again

amidst raucous winds and seesawing weather.

Climate Change.

Last year’s lilacs tried to bloom 4 times

as January released Spring’s warmth.

It prematurely teased early blooms and buds to open,

only to sharply succumb to bitter frost,

over and over and over again.

Now flowers and leaves keep buds tightly closed, dark,

fearful of fierce cold’s bite

as temperatures wildly swing

from spring warmth to winter frost.

 

Thus, my Easter wishes for us all

are continued leaning into

work of healing Mother Earth’s wounds,

for all her Life forms

are Sacred,

in all beginning kinds of Faith.

Only a Divine Source of Energy

could have Created the complex intricacies

of the exquisitely vital inter-relationships

continually found in Life on Earth.

 

Human hubris has

via free will

allowed greed, hatred, love of power

far too much free reign.

We’ve been seduced into

ruling, redesigning Nature

for gains of property, wealth, pleasure.

 

Many though are leaning into healing

with hopes that we can

nudge Divinely Created Life Cycles

again into some semblance of balance,

not as they were originally created;

for far too many life types have been decimated,

but in ways that nurture

remnants of rich forms of life

with spaces and prayerful use

 so that Mother Earth can emerge once more

 within a Divine Spirit of Resurrection.

 

                                                                                           Betsy Diaz - 3/23/24

Betsy Diaz, Ph.D. is a member of La Mesa Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque which resides on land of the Tiwa People, from whom as with many indigenous nations, we have much to learn about the Sacred gift of Creation and how we should live to maintain its sustainability.  La Mesa church also supports poetry with a Poetry Post & a Small Library in the Community Garden developed by La Mesa Church and La Mesa public Elementary School, East Central Ministries and the City of Albuquerque.