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Story 23 is called Weeding in Gods Garden. At first I was wondering where she was going with her thought and then I ended up loving the last two paragraphs. Karen Talcott cleverly points out how we shouldn’t complain about the weeds in our garden because think of the muttering that God does when he has to weed the human garden.

If you still don’t get her thought think of it this way. We humans create so many problems for ourselves here on this earth. Imagine how God feels when he has to clean up mess after mess each day especially those messes when the person just doesn’t learn their lesson.

Karen thoughts about the earth and how we take care of it resulted in me thinking of some recent news articles. About a month ago I read an article saying that China’s air is so polluted that it has now crossed the ocean and has now blended with California’s. I know LA already had a pollution problem but this has really made efforts to clean up the issue more difficult.

I also recently read about the behind the scenes human cruelty that goes on so that we all can use our cell phones. Polluting the air and disregard for human life is not an issue when large companies are battling to give us our clothing and gadgets.

Note the first sentence of Karen’s prayer “Dear God, how we like to go on about our problems and want quick and easy answers.” This is so true. This sentence applies to me too. I love to shop for clothes and can’t live without my cell phone. I know the working conditions that people have to suffer with so I can have these things but yet I still use the product.

I hope for easy answers for these people so I can still use my toys but I know deep down that it’s not the case. In my opinion it’s not the case for a lot of issues. We love our technology and have come to need it and there is no easy way to go back. Can you imagine the world going back to the days of no computers? Does the world want to even though the end result hurts the earth? I think we are hopelessly hooked.

If there is a 2012 coming maybe we all deserve it. Maybe the earth should be cleansed and given a fresh start. We have had thousands of years to take care of Mother Earth and have not done a good job. When humans create these cool inventions I think how it will make life easier comes to mind first with the waste and pollution issues coming last or being completely disregarded for the love of money. Will God finally be over his human weeds and start a new garden one day?

3/19/10

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