The nauseating pictures of oil-soaked pelicans in the Gulf have haunted me all weekend. I can't get those images out of my mind. They spring to mind unbidden and refuse to leave on demand. Those poor creatures reduced to near immobility and gasping for breath in their black death robes - I can hardly bring myself to look at them. They are like they are today because I and my people are like we are and have been for a long time.
Last night I read these words from Jurgen Moltmann:
"Christian theology has recognized in Christ not just personal salvation
but also the cosmic Wisdom through which all things are, as the Epistle
to the Colossians shows. Christ is the divine mystery of the world. The
person who reverences Christ also reverences all created things in him,
and him in everything created. . .This means that what we do to the earth,
we do to Christ."(GOD FOR A SECULAR SOCIETY, 103.)
If that last line is right, and I am sure it is, well, I have something else to haunt me as well!
Peace,
Lee
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