IT'S EARTH DAY.....ARE BLACKS CARING ABOUT THIS PLANET?
Well are we? When I take a look around some of our ruined and nasty streets I wonder? When I see trashed being tossed about and beer cans and liter just laying around, and when I see where lawns are overgrowned and uncared for in the black neighborhoods, I think do we care about this planet?
No, I know not every black neighborhood is represented as being trashy and nasty. However, I even find that trashy people are in every race! Black is the neighborhoods where I live and travel. Many time homeowers neglect up keep of their lawns and they never pick up any kind of trash in the street..... only a select few.
I'm doing my part as best I can. When I see trash whether it's on the curb or broken glass on my street, I sweep it up myself. I noticed that if I didn't no one else would. I've tested it for a time and finally I decided I couldn't take it anymore and went and swept the street. City sweepers come around, but rarely and not enough. So, in the interval I have to become the city's sweeper.
I believe cleanliness is next to Godilness. If I'm to be next to God. I have to clean. So in respect of Earth Day think about what you can do next time you see trash, or someone's yard in need of mowing, or a tree that needs planting...or do we really care?
EARTH DAY is everyday.
..I AM THE KEEPER OF THE EARTH
With my hands though small they be.
I plant a tiny little tree.
I fold the earth around it dear.
And pray it grows from year to year.
As God has granted things of green.
I am the keeper of the earth by keeping her clean.
--MIISRAEL
"Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and .....earth."
Psalm 115:15
No, I know not every black neighborhood is represented as being trashy and nasty. However, I even find that trashy people are in every race! Black is the neighborhoods where I live and travel. Many time homeowers neglect up keep of their lawns and they never pick up any kind of trash in the street..... only a select few.
I'm doing my part as best I can. When I see trash whether it's on the curb or broken glass on my street, I sweep it up myself. I noticed that if I didn't no one else would. I've tested it for a time and finally I decided I couldn't take it anymore and went and swept the street. City sweepers come around, but rarely and not enough. So, in the interval I have to become the city's sweeper.
I believe cleanliness is next to Godilness. If I'm to be next to God. I have to clean. So in respect of Earth Day think about what you can do next time you see trash, or someone's yard in need of mowing, or a tree that needs planting...or do we really care?
EARTH DAY is everyday.
..I AM THE KEEPER OF THE EARTH
With my hands though small they be.
I plant a tiny little tree.
I fold the earth around it dear.
And pray it grows from year to year.
As God has granted things of green.
I am the keeper of the earth by keeping her clean.
--MIISRAEL
"Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and .....earth."
Psalm 115:15
God bless "Mother Earth" and you as well Miisrael!! I recycle and it so happens that this morning I was talking to my 4 year old before he went off to school about recycling bins inorder to help him complete his small homework assignment that we didn't get to last night. He was able to tell me that we recycle plastic, paper boxes, and cans. He was so happy to take the empty "Red Rose" tea box and an alluminum pan to school for show and tell. Thanks again for this blog!