It is spring and I love the smell of it. I go for walks up the hill across from my house and lately it is full of spring. Pairs of ducks gliding across the water, birds all chorusing in their unique voices, happy to be heard again. The frogs are amazing right now! Usually you hear them at night, but I've been hearing them on my walk up the hill all hours of the day. And they are loud! What's funny is that they somehow can sense me walking by and as I pass there's a gradual decrescendo of noise until there's nothing left at all. Makes me wonder what they're up to, shy things... The sun feels warmer, coaxing the earth to come alive once again. There's a robin's nest under our deck, ready for new life. The buds on the trees are delicate but determined. Soon there will be a whole new array of greenery.
I'm not much of a politician, but I voted for the Green Party last year and I think I'll do the same again, even if my dad thinks I'm a hippie. History and the future will always be riddled with many complex and hotly debated issues. I risk minimizing these with my utter simplicity, I know, but I wonder if saving the environment could give other issues a bit of an awakening in a roundabout way of paying homage to the human condition's desperate cry for salvation. Nature's voice speaks to us all the time, if we can pay attention and listen. What has been lying dormant in the deadness of winter slowly and faithfully rewards waxing and waning hope, comes to life over and over again, and graciously whispers to us the possibilities of our own resurrections. It somehow knows that we forever need reminding.
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I think it's sad that the church as a whole has taken up the fight against every little thing that they feel is "sin" but over all has forgotten the first job we were given. Take care of the earth and care for the animals. Call me a hippie if you like but I use paper clips not staples, I by only organic foods, I pay extra for electricity so it all come from wind power, and I take my own bags with me to the store. Little chnages in or life patterns can deeply impact our foot print on this world. So the next time you judge someone for what ever wrong doing you see in thier life take a moment to ask your self if God would be ok with your gas consumption.
Do people that drive eight passenger suvs alone get to go to heaven?
I vote green party as well by the way.
Good on you Mr. Manies! (what happened to Andrewman?) Your little changes inspire me- I should do more of those too... Eight passenger SUV drivers... :) I don't know about heaven or hell- maybe a nature-less purgatory? Mind you, there's still a few more lifestyle changes I should be making before I condemn anyone else. I'm excited to one day do composting for my garden. :)
I decided to turn the lights off and will read the rest these ramblings in the dark.
The world is full of "more, more, more!" Consumerism and excessiveness is not only polluting our earth, it's polluting our minds. The only thing we need more of is God time and love!
In heaven, we will all be hippies. Minus the marijuana. I think God made the marijuana so that we can learn to say no (most of the time). Other than that, hippies.
(When I read this back to myself, I got a picture of how strange I am... sorry Carla.)
Travis, strange is really okay. I enjoy how your thoughts just roll out. :) No apologies! I always like them, too (your thoughts, not apologies). Heck, I like you!
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