Let’s see. While we are inundated with stories of an agreement to an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to open the Black Sea to shipping, destruction in Gaza and the West Bank, the new regime’s support for the far right in Ireland -- can hardly wait for more religious violence there from this one --- and attempts to intimidate Greenland, health and the environment have taken a back seat.
David Geier, who has touted links between debunked theories on vaccines and autism and, it should be noted, disciplined for practicing medicine without a license, will now head a study on—you guessed it – vaccine autism links. This while more than 370 now have measles, including newborns while HHS, under Kennedy, does nothing.
And in addition to a hotter more climate crisis driven summer, wolves are under attack. Billed as protecting pets and livestock, the gray wolf would be removed from the federal endangered species list. Then, so called sportsmen could go back to hunting them from helicopters, running them down with snowmobiles, and killing pups in their dens.
Prayer for the Day
In the quiet of the morning, we come to you, Eternal God,
In the stillness of the night, we listen for your voice;
But there are times we feel we cannot find you for the world smothers us,
As words and sounds we do not want to hear bombard us,
Envelop us, sustain us, empower us so we are empowered
To find sustenance and peace as we strive to live your Gospel.
In the name of the One who leads the way,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
Christ wears “two shoes” in the world: Scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
Duns Scotus Eriugena, Irish born philosopher, poet (815-877)
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
Hildegard of Bingen, poet, philosopher, musician (1098-1179)
But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air and they will tell you;
Ask the plants of the earth and they will teach you, the fish of the sea will say to you.
Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In God’s hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of every human being.
Job 12: 7-10