What Is a Home?

What does your home mean to you?

How important is your home to you?

When I Speak of home, do you picture your house, your dwelling. The place where you gather with your family of friends, to eat and cook. To nourish yourself. The place where you spend most of your time, where you dream and make plans, where you envisage your future.Where you raise your children.

Do you feel protective over your home? Does it contain many valuable possessions, many memories?Is it walls of stone, of clay, is it canvas or metal? Is it stationary or mobile?

I know it gives you shelter, it makes you feel safe and secure, it is your safe haven.

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You may have put many hours, days or weeks of work into building it, improving it, cleaning it and maintaining it. It is a piece of you, you have left your mark on your home. Made it your own, it is an expression of who you are. Somewhere you feel comfortable and at ease. It is your domain.

We become very attached to our dwellings, our abodes and with very good reason. We have put so much energy into making it and keeping it a home. A lot of thought goes into planning the type of home that you want to live in, as it must meet all your needs. A home includes our house and land. That which we look after, that we take responsibility for. something we become passionate about , protective over. Something that is yours.

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Our Home

But Our Home , is something many seem to have forgotten about, even disregarded. Something we are happy to take from over and over again but never give anything back. Yet It provides for us in so many ways, it sustains us, gives us everything we need.

Why are we not protective over Our Home?

Do we not feel comfortable in it?
Do we not feel safe?
Does it not hold any valuables?
Why are we not helping to improve it, maintain it, keep it clean?

The Earth is our home and it is a Wonder!

Each breathe we take depends on the earth, but now also on us. We need to take responsibility so that we can restore clean air and clean water. We need to open our eyes to our real home.

We need to wake up.

Why do we choose to protect walls over our planet. Do we really believe that as long as we have walls around us that we can allow the air and the water to become polluted? We may feel safe behind these walls, but for how long. What are they really doing? O.k they give us shelter and keep people out. But many walls that surround us are actually poisonous to our natural environment and are polluting our water and air.

We need to stop looking at what we can take from the earth and and start looking at what we can give back!

How can we be of service to the earth.

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We can all make small changes in our daily lives. This is something that we have control over. Lets become extraordinary people who are welling to change and are determined to make a difference.

We can choose what we buy, how we buy. We can buy local produce and products. Buy produces that do not harm or poison us or the environment. We need to become the people we would be proud to be. Create a world by what we give and what we take. Find that balance in our lives.

We live in shelters, be they wooden, brick, clay, metal, canvas. concrete and many more besides and they are structures that we should feel pride in.

But Our Home is the Planet, lets start to treat it like that.

Put our energy into it, protect it, because we have only this one!

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