Faith meanderings, Psalm 96.10-13 ...
Let the nations know, the world is on a firm foundation ... "it shall never be moved!"
And when God arrives to judge the earth, earth will rejoice.
And if earth should rejoice upon God's visit, then we might pay a little more attention to the causes of such joy - in the heavens, upon the earth ... for the sea and all the life that fills it ... for the field and all that it grows ... the forests and all its trees ...
Some serious environmental theology going on here ...
Without getting too dramatic, mountain-top-removal is not bringing a whole lot of joy to God's good earth ... or to the folks who live by those shattered mountains.
Nor is clear-cutting ... or fracking ... or limestone mining in the Upper Peninsula ...
How about the laying waste of the Amazon Basin ... or the desolation of the Niger Delta ... not to mention the horrors of industrial warfare, unexploded ordinance that will pollute the earth and maim the children who "toy" with the junk left behind by the greed of the nations ...
I doubt if the field and forest and the butterflies are too pleased with Monsanto's manipulation of all things living ...
Anyway, that's enough for the moment ...
1 comment:
I love your ecological theology
or theological ecology
or biblical environmentalism
or maybe you just served up
a plate of stewardship
of the creation
with a dash of righteous
indignation --
very spicy.
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