I have become absolutely fascinated with the idea of our history, what and whence we came from. I am watching Waking the Baby Mammoth and to see a creature from 40,000 years ago in near perfect preservation is breathtaking. She is a little baby mammoth, with so much that she has been able to tell our world. I find the same fascination in learning our ancient languages and customs. I would love to study Hebrew, Greek and the ancient of both languages and cultures. The Bible has never fascinated me as it does now. As we near towards the crux of civilization.
I find a sort of sadness in the idea that there is so much information about so much: people, places, languages, cultures, land, earth, vegetation, etc. And I can’t learn it all in my lifetime. I want to be a scholar of the Bible, and understand some of the references to the language and culture it refers to. To better understand what the text tells us. I want to hear the voice of God through the ancient language he communicated to the authors in. I wish I understood the climate factors that impacted our planet changing as it has since it was created by God, and why the tragedy of our planet continues to unfold. I feel sad that we don’t care for our planet, and consume so much without replenishing or caring. I am saddened as well that we don’t care for the creatures of this planet and one another as God intended us to. Animals that were resplendent and in great number when I was a child, just 25 years ago are now nearing extinction. Something in that is disturbing and terribly sad.
We need to recycle, we need to reduce our carbon footprints. We need to cherish the planet that God so skillfully and wonderfully created. We need to honor it. And in the words of the great Grand Rapids Pastor Rob Bell ‘God is Green.’
So may you go out today and learn, may you find something about our planet and our world and culture that you didn’t know before. May you treasure it and share it with someone else and continue the spread of knowledge. Appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. God doesn’t make mistakes.
I certainly agree with you about how sad it is with the direction that the world is going, but I think one of the best things we can do is firstly to care for the environment, but then to educate, because it really isn’t difficult to make minor changes, that have a massive impact. If only people knew, and weren’t so selfish…