I bet in other parts of the world they are not giving a second thought to this whole judgment day claim. No third world citizen can be bothered entertaining these ideas, they have too much work to do, to much reality to contend with. Westernized civilization and specifically America, are the only places where people horrify, or amuse, their psyche thinking about catastrophic tragic events. It's all Hollywood to us though, as our government (funded by large corporations) here provides us with this protective bubble; doing anything it needs to to make it's citizens feel secure and sleep well at night, wake up the next day and buy your Dunkin Donuts on your way to work, "don't worry, we've got it under control". In reality, we are the Disney World of the world, because the truth is no one has it all under control, but we're having so much fun and it's been like that for so long that we just don't see it; the fantasy has become our reality.
I'd like to point out this morning that while we are not going to be smote by the Lord Almighty, we are not immune to retribution, and we do NOT have it all under control, it's actually quite the opposite. We've given corporations control over our lives, we depend on their products and services to survive and to provide us with those products and services they have done nothing short of rape and pillage this planet and it's more peaceful inhabitants. I'm here to say, "Repent, and change your ways!" not because some mythical, man-imagined figure will punish us if we don't, this is not a Hollywood movie people!
There is a balance to everything that is living and the earth itself is no exception. You can drink a little too much Saturday night, throw up, have a hangover the next day, and recover enough to go to work Monday morning. If you are healthy your body can handle the assault. But if you do this 5 days per week for 20 years you will make your body unhealthy and you will develop a disease that you will die from. This is what our modern lifestyle is doing to the earth. We have become a disease and the earth will do it's best to maintain it's homeostasis, just as our bodies do, just as every living thing does. You can't ignore the signs; the scientists have been shouting it, and now the weather is starting to prove it. It's not so much "judgment", just simple cause and effect that no spiritual being has control over.
This spring/summer I encourage you; skip the blockbuster movie and stay home from church. If there is a God at all, it is surely the planet we live on. Plant a garden and watch how it grows, or dies. Go for a nature hike, look around you, look at the ground, examine a flower, a bug, put your bare hands and toes in the dirt and reconnect yourself with the life force that sustains you. If you have children you know what it's like to have created life, and there is nothing you love more than that little life you created. And you have made big changes in your life for the benefit of that child and it may have been difficult but you did it and it was worth it. If you learn to love LIFE, life itself, you will learn to love the earth which sustains it. And if you learn to LOVE the earth you will find that the changes you need to make to act in love towards it are difficult at first, but in the end you CAN do it, and it's worth it.
And that is my best try at gentle inspiration folks. The harsh truth is we're all fucked if we don't make a huge effort to fix this shit, and it's goin down a whole lot sooner than Mickey Mouse, Kim Kardashian or Obama are ever gonna tell you on the TV so turn that shit off and wake the fuck up!
Happy Spring everyone!
Miss Z
