Weather. We’re having it wet today, which, after a lovely sunny and dry week, we need. Other parts of the country are having more wet weather than they need, however, with floods in parts of the Midwest, such as Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio, and scorching heat in the southwest. Then there is Hurricane Lala, now a tropical storm, in Hawaii.
The weather patterns are only the indicia of what we have done to this planet, our home. The list of damage seems endless from the White House’s attempts to force reliance on fossil fuels to proposals to mine the seabed, not to mention the eradication of climate science by eviscerating agencies that inform us about what we are doing.
What we have is a bunch of old greedy men, and they are pretty much all men, who really don’t care if they destroy the future since they’ll all be dead, anyway. One would think they might at least care about their own children, who they imagine will live based on their inherited wealth. Living with an “Aprés moi, le deluge” mentality will only hasten the flood.
Prayer for the Day
Gazing at the heavens, O God, we wonder what comes next,
Unbearable heat, violent storms, massive flooding;
In the late summer rain, gentle as it is now,
We pray that rains stay gentle and heat is bearable.
Turn us around, O Lord, so we can change our course,
With our rudders and sails going with a good wind.
In the name of the One who walked by the sea,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
I’m not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures — on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Human emissions are adding a permanent El Niño worth of heat to the climate system each decade.
Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist, Berkeley Earth
There’s no doubt that the planet as a whole is warming, and that this is due to the fact that we’re putting a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely by the burning of fossil fuels which feeds the energy that we all use to have the lifestyles that we live.
Galen McKinley, climatologist, Columbia University
God saw everything that had been made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 1: 31