Sometimes it’s amazing what you save. Growing up with The Washington Post, every morning I looked for the Herblock cartoon. It almost didn’t matter whether his target of the day was the DAR or some bumbling government official, he was always on point.
An old political cartoon I saved from 2006 went with a story from today’s Washington Post. The wife has just opened a freezer door and staring her in the face is a polar bear and she looks at her husband’s newspaper with the headline “Ice Caps Melting.”
Between activist shareholders and court decisions, oil and gas interests have lost some of their previous power and influence. Yesterday’s addition of the Lesser Prairie Chicken in Texas to the Endangered Species list will force fossil fuel interests to look at the impact of their development on the bird’s habitat. Now, back to that polar bear ….
Prayer for the Day
We come to you, O God, acknowledging you as Creator,
And we see the glory of your creation even in a grain of sand.
Even the wolf and the bear, the lynx and the cougar call to you
And the tortoise and the butterfly look to you in silence.
Come, O God, and remind us that we are not the owners
Of your earth and your creation, but caretakers.
In the name of him who walked among grass and lilies,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that wherever you go, the least plant may bring you the clear remembrance of the Creator ….One blade of grass or one speck of dust is enough to occupy your entire mind in beholding the art with which it has been made.
St. Basil the Great (329-379)
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 (1098-1179)
O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all;
The earth is full of your creatures.
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there,
Living things both small and great.
Psalm 104: 24-25