Going Home
Let it be said that once upon a time there were no people on Earth. Instead, there were oceans and mountains and only tiny little microbes that were the start of life on this planet. Let’s go back to that time to see the pristine nature of water. With this in mind let’s applaud the life forces that dared to choose life on this planet. Now remember the water cycle, and envision the evaporation from oceans into cloud formation. Let’s follow the track of those clouds and the waters that fell from them. The rain fell on the mountains and as it did so, it chose to alleviate the mountains of some of their elements, such as iron, calcium and many others.
Why did these elements choose to go with the rain and tumble down the mountains joining other waters and elements forming rivers that brought these elements into the sea? It’s plain to see that this was meant to happen in perpetuity. The reason is that the very first life forms need those elements, the calcium, the iron etc., for their formation into the very tiniest of single celled shell beings. Scientists now know that these were the first ones to appear as life forms on planet Earth.
This is also true today. These tiny lifeforms and the ones who became a little bit larger are the basis of all life on the planet. They feed the fish that grew later, and then the amphibians that choose to find their way onto land while developing the ability to do so.
As the world grew, more lifeforms chose to be born and that started the plant kingdom. At first, they too wished to be born as single cells. Now they needed the elements just like those in the oceans. They did not compete with the oceans, but actually helped those elements to find their way through the waters back to the ocean. These first microbes on land wriggled about, loosening the elements and placing them on their skin, their membranes. This miracle remains the same today. These beautiful cooperative beings are still under our soil.
They still do that same work of wriggling about loosening up the elements and this time, they have added the cooperation of taking those elements right into plant roots. Yes, it’s true. They work in harmony with plant roots to give them the elements needed for the plant to grow and prosper, helping the plant to produce flowers and possibly fruits and nuts and seeds. Without those microbes and the little bit larger beings that followed them in evolution, we would have no plant life on earth.
Once this harmony was established, other lifeforms were supported by eating the plants. In the ocean larger life forms began to form and many of those are still with us today in the form of shelled beings. Now some of those shelled beings formed the ability to crawl onto land. They still do so today. Some of the beings developed the ability to swim against the ocean and up into freshwaters. These fish are the cherished ones we see in rivers and streams today. They must work very hard to swim against the current, but do so with regularity.
It is because of these early life forms that the more complex animals and plants have been allowed to explore lifetime after lifetime, eventually allowing humans to persist on this planet even to today. Aren’t you glad to be part of this mixture? This is your home. Cherish her.
