Season's Greetings---Summer Style!

 Season’s Greetings—Summer Style!

 

Don’t you get amazed every year at the silly things folks say to you when holidays arrive? Maybe not. My own interpretations include something along these lines: Hot Pavement Days! School Bus Avoidance Days! Lawn Mowers Howling Days! Dry Grass Greetings! Dust In the Wind Days! Earthquake Experience Days! and that ever popular—Central Air Collapse Days! Yes, siree Bob! If Texas had any more celebratory days in its calendar, none of us could stand it! And some folks think that Willis Carrier was kin to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison!

 

We really don’t stop to realize sometimes how wonderful it is to have iced tea—decaf or otherwise! Well, actually, some of us are so inclined to drink water from plastic bottles that we probably should rethink each time we purchase anything that contains plastic. Let’s see now. The water filtering jug is made of plastic. The cups in the cabinet are basically a type of plastic. Maybe we can find bacon that is not packed in a Ziplock plastic container. And then there are the 100% cotton sheets that melt when burned—to leave behind a residue that is obviously made of plastic. Looking around my office to attempt to find something that does not contain plastic . . . . still looking at the walls made with paneling that is supposed to be wood. The varnish on my new pantry has some kind of plastic in it that makes it stay on the wood and not be prone to water stains. Nope. Even the old woman sitting at the computer has a plastic fiber fitting in her back that is supposed to replace bone. Guess we might as well celebrate Plastic Days! Wonder how much plastic is in the actual tea leaves.

Some scientist found some worms that eat plastic. Hmm. Wonder if mega-size piles of plastic will lead to mega-size worms? Is it not enough that scientists want to clone some extinct animals? We can’t even deal with the ones on earth now. Some folks have it in for cows for their excessive flatulence. Can you imagine if they could bring back the wooly mammoths? Instead of just your regular elephant, we might have one covered in wool. Bet it would not do well in Africa or Asia today. Maybe they could be employed to step on mega-sized worms!

 

Obviously, the old woman needs to talk to the only One who created the critters that have come down to us over the ages. Some things die out naturally or evolve into smaller creatures. Snails can be repopulated in coastal waters off of Australia or sea cows can be bred with manatees, but who knows if what we can imagine is going to be a good thing or not. Over the ages, mankind has developed larger brains and healthier bodies (to some extent), but that does not mean that what we invent or otherwise develop is what is good for the earth or for mankind. We can imagine things that have never been possible in the past, and sometimes that is a wonderful thing. Diseases have been somewhat alleviated or removed, but mankind still has a hardness of heart that makes us tremble in terror or disgust.

 

Let us hope that God will touch our hearts and those of all on the earth. No manner of evolving matters as much as the composition of the heart of mankind. If it is not turned to its creator, it is not going to live.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.