Category: inspiration
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Earth is our home
A pastor of mine often ended his prayers with “this is not our home,” telling us that we’re here briefly while in transit to heaven, so we should not get wrapped up in Earth. But the pastor is mistaken. We’ve been placed on this planet for seventy (more or less) years to glorify and love…
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Close to God in his nature: the joy of creation
John Muir’s inspiration, joy, and rhapsody while in nature are evident in his experience at a glacier in Alaska: “Standing here, with facts so fresh and telling and held up so vividly before us, every seeing observer, not to say geologist, must readily apprehend the earth-sculpturing, landscape-making action of flowing ice. And here, too, one…
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The Importance of Small
Cast on, bind off—the words a knitter uses when starting and finishing a knitting project. Michelle Obama, in her book The Light We Carry, in one of the chapters tells us of the importance and the peace of being absorbed in the small, and of the satisfaction of doing and completing small tasks. She writes…
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Face to face with God . . . in his nature
In the quiet of nature, we find ourselves face to face with God’s love of life and variety of life, his cycles of life and death and life again, the immensity of his time and space, and with the wonders and wisdom by which he created the universe. At the seashore, on a mountaintop, in…
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“Go Where the Good Is” and “Learn How to Be Useful”
“Go where the good is” and “Learn how to be useful”: simple phrases that, when enacted upon, have enormous consequences.[note: This is a re-post (with some edits) from a blog page that I once administered. It was originally posted 21 May 2021.] Last night, I told my son Pat that I was proud of him.…
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God’s Wisdom in Nature
God, in his wisdom and through the millennia, has evolved and woven together a rich web of creatures and plants that sustains and propagates life and the variety of life that he obviously (because he made so much of it) loves. We’re blessed to be able to explore, understand, appreciate, and care for (when we…
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America doesn’t, and then it does
America doesn’t, and then it does—it’s often our history. As my blog post of 25 July “America Surrenders on Climate Change” (accessible at https://mrmconservation.com/2022/07/25/america-surrenders-on-climate-change/) related, America’s Congress had given up on passing climate legislation . . . but then it put forth big climate legislation. If passed, this legislation will remake America as a clean…
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God’s nature advocacy
God’s nature advocacy: The application by people of faith of their talents toward Earth stewardship. Just as we serve God in discipleship, caring for the poor and afflicted, pastoring, singing, cooking for the congregation, volunteering in church projects, supporting youth, and the myriad other ways that God has made possible for us to express his…
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If I were to die this year
If I were to die this year, what would I like for me to have been doing? Or to put it in more of a do it, present-tense way: What should I strive to do this year? Background: On 13 June 2022, I learned from my stress echocardiogram and my history that I have stable…
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