Great Line from 1883:

" Why did God make such a world full of wonders and then put in (tornadoes, rattlesnakes, flooding, snowstorms)?"

Answer: "He didn't make it for us."

Wow!

That's one of the best lines I have ever heard. "He didn't make it for us."

Humans are so self important so much of the time but the world wasn't made for us. It was made for God for his own purposes.

But, I suppose if you don't believe in God you might say it differently.

Either way, the world wasn't made for the comfort of mankind.

We can make it that way by growing our own food warming and cooling our houses, educating ourselves in various ways and extending our lives as far as we can and still want to be alive.

However, the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world and from the world instead.

This might make sense in this context.

I was in a Sweat Lodge with Charlie Thom who has since passed away who was a Medicine man of the Karuk Tribe of Northern California of Native Americans. In between rounds I hauled out of the sweat lodge and got into the beginnings of the Sacramento River above Lake Siskiyou which is part of the headwaters of the Sacramento River. This is what I got from Life and God and nature spirits then.

The waters your blood

The Rocks your Bones

Your Breath the Sky

For me, this was one of the most profound realizations I ever had at that moment regarding being alive here on earth. The fact that the water is us. The Rocks are us. The Sky is us. All are our family.

We are the  Family of Earth, Water and Sky.

Every time you breathe a different group of air into your lungs, especially if you are in the wide open spaces outside. Have you ever contemplated where all the air you once breathed has gone all around the world during your lifetime? Have you ever contemplated where all the water you ever drank is now?

In the ocean, in a river, in the ground, in a lake, evaporated into the sky?