It's a scorcher here in SF. 100 degrees and there's this wierd brown hazy light everywhere. People are saying it looks like the world is burning up. It's been getting up over 122 degrees in Phoenix. I don't know how they live. Air Conditioning I guess. Today I locked my dogs in the car while I ran into the store. I came back just a couple minutes later but they were standing up, panting, staring out the window at me, "How could you do that to us. We could have died in here!" And the truth is, they could have. They might even have unlocked the door, but without opposable thumbs still couldn't operate the handle.
And it hit me how helpless all the other animals are. Totally at our whim. The planet started heating up, we stepped into our vehicles, fired em up, turned on the AC and roared off. Yeah, we brought our dogs, but we left the raccoons, the foxes, the mynah birds and the polar bears.
What is God saying to us now? I suspect it's something like, "Step out of the vehicle son. Look, listen and feel what's happening to this paradise I left you in. Turn down your appetites and turn up your awareness. There may still be time. All the billions of creatures I spent all those billions of years crafting into feather and fur and fin, they're totally at your mercy. You are ALL my beloved!"
I have only an inkling of what God sounds like or what he would say. But I'm pretty sure he's saying something right now. And we sure don't seem to be listening.
I included this picture of this beautiful young coon I found by the roadside the other morning. I guess someone built a road between him and the creek on the other side. I set him off to the side so his pals could safely bid him adieu.
