It was, and is, good

Monday May 19th, Genesis 1: And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. If God made it and it was good, I wonder why we as humans do not grasp the sin of destroying it. Thanks to the work of Al Gore (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/243) and school children and countless thousands of others, the issue of global warming is starting to come out of the trenches and into the limelight. The “Greenies” are still being vilified by some in our current make a buck world as holding back progress but instead of holding back progress, it may be that they are holding up creation. Holding up creation should be the churches job, but we dropped the ball and have only now started to pick it up again. We have paper recycling, but what else can we do as a congregation to hold up that which God created and called good? Wouldn’t it be great if every church had a windmill as well as a steeple?