May 27, 2025

Last night I was dreaming about climate change. There was a tug of war between factors that worsen climate change and actions that seek to mitigate climate change. In the dream, those in charge of the government were well aware of the tipping point, the point at which things get dramatically worse and spin out of control, even though they pretended to a whole different reality in front of the TV cameras.  It was like they were producing a TV show for the masses, but behind the scenes they were well aware of the tipping point.  The dream said that they are skirting as close to the tipping point as they can, in order to maximize profits. The danger is that they could miscalculate and come too close to that tipping point and lose control. 

We must pray for the preservation of our natural world.  People whose main experience of the outdoors is manicured golf courses do not necessarily understand the need for complex biodiversity for the health of ecosystems, and therefore for the health of the inhabitants – including us.

We may think that we can survive, we can pray and carry on even without birds and creatures, why not? But God is in the birdsong, nature is God’s world, and we ourselves are inseparable from all creation. We rise together, we fall together.  We breathe in, we breathe out.  Clearly we are not separate from the air we breathe, as there is a constant exchange. Gravity pulls on our bodies; we are part of Mother Earth.  Let us not succumb to intellectual arrogance and clever technological solutions. We are human beings, as we have been for millennia, the creation that God most delights in. Pray for wisdom and peace. That is all for today. Amen.