Twilight Twitches

Spend a few moments simply reading through this prayer slowly. Then pray it.
You are recharging our environment in this simple act of reflection.

Season of Creation 2019 Prayer

Dear Family,
Did you know that you are biodegradable? Ashes to ashes; dust to dust. That’s what we were and that’s what we will be.  The nice thing about being biodegradable is that ultimately you are still contributing to the nature which spawned you. It kind of gives a deeper meaning to fertilizer, no pun intended.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said about many of the things we use from day to day. Plastics in huge amounts come to mind.

If you want to have some very troubling moments about what your kids and grandkids are going to inherit from us, simply go to the internet and type in Covering Climate Now or Ocean Pollution – and that’s just for starters.

Dear Family,
Do you recall Barbra Streisand’s song, “The Way We Were”? A couple of lines have been haunting me.

Mem’ries, light the corners of my mind...
What’s too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget...

As it often can be the case with so many things, one day something has huge importance; the next day we’ve moved on to the next “huge importance.”

Dear Family,
You know how I feel about surprises. After 51 years of ministry and 38 years of writing weekly pastor's letters, this is a first.

As I write on Labor Day, my surprise is finding myself waiting with all of you to see how we make out with Dorian. If you are reading this, then I guess we made it. It will be really exciting if we have power, but being a good Irishman, I can't help feeling a little guilty for having it when I suspect many others won't.

As I said last Sunday, my greatest stress has been watching the northern Bahamas being decimated. At this point all I have are hints of the vast destruction, but as their closest neighbors we South Floridians need to do all we can to help them.