Global Warming is still so prevalent on our planet, but no country in this world is actively fighting its impact. We have about a few years to undo the damage and to reverse the consequences of Global Warming, maybe 10 years according to scientists. What I am writing about is how to connect ourselves deeply to all that the Earth means to us and to all the plants and animals and humans here, so that we can demand of our country that we go back to leading the fight against Global Warning and then to co-operate with other nations in reversing this awful trend.
Together, let us reverse all the damage that climate change is causing on this Earth and work to change this world. As Greta Thunberg, a climate activist, has said: “I have learned that you are never too small to make a difference.”
The Nature of Our God
When I think of God these days, I am drawn to what He designed for this planet Earth. I see a completely interdependent system of life on this Earth in which every single plant, animal, insect and person is needed to sustain life on this planet. Each and every one of us, including humans, has […]
We Must Act NOW!!!
“For the beauty of this Earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth, over and around us lies, Lord of all to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.”[1] If we live in the knowledge of how God gives a purpose to every plant and animal and […]
Living Up To What Our Conscience Mirrors To Us
Baptism You lift off the helmet of knowing, gently drop it. You take off the armor of being right. Unbuckle the chain mail of good enough— lift it over your head, with a little awkward squirming to get it off, it’s so tight. You unbutton the coat of deserving, untie the padding of what people […]
There are more than 2,000 verses in the Bible that instruct us to take care of the poor and needy, the foreigner, the stranger. Beyond donating money, this call challenges us to get to know them, to help where they need help, to value them, to love them. This book is an impassioned plea for us to treat them as neighbors.
Check out Pat’s Radio Interview with Benji Cole from CBS Radio- People of Distinction:
Exodus: Our Story, Too! weaves together the trials of the Israelites in the wilderness between Egypt and Canaan with the stages of the classical spiritual journey: Awakening, Purgation, Illumination and Union. To read this story is to see where each of us is on this journey and what we have left to do to enter the kingdom of God. The longest part of the journey is purgation, the giving up of our rebellious nature, the owning of all that we are, all that we have said and done and what was done to us, the releasing of our own world-centered views of how our lives should go in favor of loving God, of following Him wherever He would take us and finally entering into a full partnership with God in our lives. Then we live out our lives as we were created to be, living fully, purposefully and in peace.
Over the Christian centuries the teaching about the kingdom of God has followed a pretty narrow pattern. The kingdom was heaven where believers in Jesus as the son of God, if they had been true to the letter of the law, would go after they died. This interpretation has ignored much of what Jesus said about the kingdom in His parables and teachings and focused on us being “letter-of-the-law” people. But Jesus was about the Spirit of the Law, that is following the essence of the law in every situation, not being sure to cross every “I” and dot every “t.”