environmental....

Is the Climate changing? Is there Global warming?
Whether what we are experiencing with the climate is cyclical or man made we certainly are confronted with some stark realities.
The Northern Ice cap is certainly diminishing. Island nations, especially in the Pacific are expereiencing extreme tides, cyclones are more devastating as the recent ones on the coast of P.N.G. and Bangladesh show.
Couple this with the obvious man made disasters like the massive oil spill off the Korean Coast and we see the damage that is happening to our planet: which is both a robust and a vulnerable place at the same time.
God has called us to be good stewards of the earth, to care for it, to delight in it. We are also called to share the resources equitably.
Against the huge things happening in places like China - one of the planet's worst polluters - our efforts may seem puny and ineffective - but we must do our bit.
We are called to be good stewards, to be faithful - in that is our peace and from a tniy seed......

The environment

Climate Change is all the talk at the moment. We have a new Government which seems to be more committed than the previous one in dealling with the issue; there is the big conference in Bali. Will nations take it all seriously or will money interests rule supreme? Indonesia which is host of the conference, "talks the talk" but the rape of its rain forests sends a very different message.

In the Church's calendar we are in the season of ADVENT. One of the themes here is the "new creation". As we await in hope for the new creation - described in both Isaiah and in the Revelation - we also need to play our part today in caring for the created order. We are responsible for the resources we use,l we are responsible for the rubbish we make - we have our responsibilities to care for, and delight in the creation - God has made us "caretakers" - are you taking "good care"?