I’m not going
to complain one bit about the unseasonable cold, or the four inches of snow we
have on the ground. I’m not going to grumble about the slightly impaired driving
conditions, or having to take extra care getting about when I’m outside.
I’ve been watching the news, and I know so many of my American
friends have it so much worse.
I don’t think I
have ever seen as much bad weather as y’all have been having over the last few
months. My beloved and I sit down a few nights a week to watch the evening news
on ABC, and each time we have, there’s been another headline about severe
weather in the United States.
More often than
not, we just sit and stare, and then say, “Again??”
Monday night it
was reported that the mainland US is currently more than 50 percent
snow-covered, and it was only about 12 percent covered this time
last year. That’s a heck of a difference. And cold? This latest influx of arctic
weather we’re all enduring makes last year’s polar vortexes seem like an autumn
chill.
Now, the
weather is the weather, and it is cyclical. We humans have only been recording
it scientifically for what, just over a century? So we don’t really know what
the big picture is, with regard to “normal”. We have a tendency in our own
ego-centric way, to call “normal” that which we’re used to. But we don’t
know whether a span of several years of highly unsettled, unstable weather isn’t
on its own, normal.
But on the
surface of things it appears as if our climate is running amok, meteorologically
speaking. And I have to wonder how anyone can truly doubt that we’ve damaged our
own environment with the way we have carelessly spewed chemicals and gasses into
the air for decades.
There’re these
things in existence called natural laws. One of those laws is summed up as
“cause and effect”. Or, if you prefer a biblical term for it, “sowing and
reaping”.
Yes, they’re
the same thing.
You have to
wonder, if our atmosphere ideally is comprised of a balance of certain gasses,
and we send other gasses recklessly into the mix, how we could expect anything
but change and upheaval when nature’s balance is disrupted that way.
We have to do a
better job of stewardship with regard not only to this planet but the creatures
and people populating it. God gave us this planet, and we need to respect his
gift, and take better care of it, because from all I’ve heard and seen, there’s
not another one waiting in the wings for us to use.
Some problems
in life seem insurmountable to us. They’re huge in scope, and we think, since
we’re so puny, that we can’t do anything to make a difference. But that thinking
is just plain wrong. If everyone does something, then something big will
happen.
Let me say that
again, because it is important. If everyone does something, then something big
will happen. That’s not wishful thinking or naiveté or even unbridled
optimism.
That, my
friends, is mathematics.
Here’s a
simplistic illustration of what I mean. Have you ever seen that proposition:
which would you rather have, five million dollars, or a penny doubled every day
for 30 days?
Did you ever
work it out mathematically? One cent, on day two, would be two cents; on day 10
it would be $10.24. On day 20, it’s looking a little better – it’s now
$10,485.76. And on day 30? $10,737,418.24.
One cent isn’t
much—it’s what you do with it that counts. Combined, multiplied, it’s a fortune.
So too are the acts, the small, daily acts, that we each can perform, the small
decisions we each can take every day, to do a better job taking care of our
planet.
Love,
Morgan
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