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It's About Humility and Gratitude

April 8, 2013 – Today’s article will not be everybody’s cup of tea.   This particular pot has been brewing for quite some time, however, and I’m realizing that if I don’t say anything, I’m not being faithful to the person I am.   Comments are always welcome; share your reaction, if you care to. Perhaps it’s people’s lack of imagination that perplexes me, at least in part.   But no – that’s fudging.   If I’m going to be honest with you – and I am – it’s people’s faith in anything but God that has me stymied.   Here we are, in the hottest water (hmm, this tea theme seems to have a life of its own) humanity has ever gotten themselves into, but we still fail to see how destructive and chaotic climate change will eventually become.   We talk about nature, as if It were the thing in charge.   Nature does not love us, even when we fail.   Nature is not determined that we will learn our lesson, no matter how many times we fail.   Nature does not...