the art of recycling

this morning i went for a walk again along the shore, since the tide was out...so lucky! and as i walked i suddenly started to realize that the huge trees that had lined the shore yesterday were now laying on the ground, uprooted from the wind and tide! what a shock... a huge tree that landed on the roof of a nearby resort, houses that were no longer...and all the rubbish that was IN the sea, was now ON the shore...and along with all of that so called "disaster"...the shore was dotted with people busy collecting driftwood, plastic lids, string, all to be sold...so one mans misfortune was another mans income, and it was as if nature had just spewed out whatever didn't belong in the sea anymore, and now it can be collected.

i was asking deewah about it all..how he sees it, and he didn't quite get what i meant...he said that there are people without a home now, and people with income, and everything is fine. it is ecological...
and i said, doesn't he think people are angry that they don't have a home now? and he said: angry at whom?!
and i asked what about all the rubbish that the sea has thrown back in our faces so we can see how negligent we are? why not just educate people NOT to throw the rubbish on the ground in the first place, and then you don't need the sea to spew it out and people to collect it!

and he smiled and said: "as i have told you before, everyone does what he does because of where he is in his understanding. those that are at the level to be kind to the environment, are, and those that do not understand this yet, throw the rubbish on the ground, and so there are people who will collect it and earn a living.
there are many levels to rise to and each one at his own pace.

and the feeling today, is that everything is ONE...the strong wind, the fallen trees, the recyclers, the homeless, the huge waves, the debris from the sea...that it is all part of one whole that just has a much greater ebb and flow than i can see and understand in my limited mind where things seem like disasters, or successes, etc...it is all just ONE and if i get stuck in one part of it then i can be fearfilled and worried, and if i can trust that if it doesn't make sense to me it is only because i have looked at only a small portion of something much greater and that is why it doesn't make sense and seems wrong. just patience....patience....trust...acceptance...and do what i can just for today to do
whatever i can to keep the three areas in balance...environment, relationships and worship.