I have a dream; a dream to make the world a better place; dream, to help heal this planet by bringing new awareness and understanding to her people. The potential healers of this planet are the children. The children are the future, so it is essential we help them understand the plight we and those who have gone before us have brought to our present world! The children of the world today can either be the victims of our errors or the healers of our errors, but they must be made aware of their innate potential of being world healers. Many children today are born being especially aware children and know instinctively that they must fight for this planet and are doing so. But for the healing to speed up, increase and intensify, more children must be involved. As more children become aware, so too do more adults. Children can’t help but impart their wisdom to their parents! So as we teach more children new understandings and values of life, so too do we teach more adults, who in turn automatically begin to back their children in this fight for the return to our world as it should be - not as we have made it!
As most of you know, I live in Egypt. I have for over six years now and my work here has mostly involved children. Children here have equally as much potential to be world healers as do other children from all parts of the world; however the awareness level of life for Egyptian children in general is limited. Children for many reasons which I prefer not to go into at this time are very sheltered from the realities of life, including the endless beauty in life and gift of life. Predominantly, there is very little appreciation of nature among Egyptian children. Here most children are taught to fear the desert, which is one of the most wondrous examples of God’s majesty available to us in this country. It shows the secret of life being sustainable and flourishing even though the appearance of this sustenance appears to be hidden. Abundance is ever present even though at times disguised!
The children, however, once they touched down in the desert sand, are in love with life; they immediately sense their soul’s connection with the desert, and revel and delight in their desert time.
I have organised desert school trips in this country, and unfortunately out of around seventy children wanting to join in these excursions only about 7- 10 have been permitted to go, and some of these children only received permission to join in because they pestered their parents endlessly to do so until they successfully wore their parents down. The main misconceptions of the parents have been that the desert is either dangerous or boring. Most parents in Egypt have never even been to the desert for any length of time; they have merely passed by the edges of it in their vehicles. Few Egyptian parents have ever experienced the joy and pleasure of being at one with nature in the vastness and majesty of these incredible healing sanctuaries which offer deeper invaluable understandings to the value, beauty and meaning of life in all its forms. The children, however, once they touched down in the desert sand, are in love with life; they immediately sense their soul’s connection with the desert, and revel and delight in their desert time.
The minute the jeeps come to a halt on the desert sands, the desert itself becomes the teacher and entertainer to the children. Our desert trips always allow teachers and carers to simply enjoy life, as life, and the reality of life becomes instinctive. In these quiet, peaceful surroundings, the moods of all those in its presence also become quiet and peaceful. For two years now I have made these trips with children aged 2-4, and they love it and they ask for more, and they tell their friends to join us next time. But when I speak to parents regarding this, even after they have seen the fun-filled photos and CDs taken on the outing, plus spoken to teachers who joined us, they still feel the trip is too unsafe for children. When their children are grown they say they can go but by then it becomes more and more difficult for grown children to make the connection to the gift offered in this natural form of life. The children by this stage of development have become conditioned to computers and unreality as being the way to living fulfilling lives.
