a global warning - revisited

Spiritual resource to share: love for our shared planet

I've given lots more thought to how we do our part to take care of our planet, especially since having children! I re-read a post I wrote last year about taking the issues about global warming as a warning and a prompting to greater alertness and greater action.

My family recycles, keeps informed about environmental issues and supports some green groups, but underlying these actions is prayer. Here are some of the ideas that have been supporting our actions:

Thought determines experience, and when thought is aligned with infinite Mind/infinite intelligence, we are open to literally infinite possibilities.

God, the Creator of the earth, saw everything that He made and announced it completely good. (See Genesis 1:31.) To take a look at the material scene, though, it would appear that deterioration, neglect, greed and ignorance have altered this view and put us on a dangerous course of further deterioration.

So, then, does God get shoved out of the picture? Hardly. And are we helpless to stop this downward spiral? Not at all.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Omnipotent Spirit ( another name for God) shares not its strength with matter or with human will."

God, and all of God's attributes, (such as unconditional love, intelligent care, balanced systems) have divine authority. God is at the helm of thought. And God is supreme good.

God is not overwhelmed. The mental environment we accept is the physical environment we live in. So it is important that we identify with what has divine authority and work out from that basis, and accept only a mental environment that is sustainable, harmonious and pure. This then will become our physical environment.

Out of an orderly thought comes orderly actions.
Out of a loving thought comes loving provisions for the future.
Out of a commitment to serve God comes a commitment to serve mankind.
And out of that commitment comes an expectation to find innovative solutions, a patience that fuels collaborative ventures and a persistence to continue working until we see the harmonious results we are praying for.

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

a few cool resources for global warming:

Conserve School - a high school with a focus on environment, ethics and innovation

Christian Science Monitor - this special Monitor website tracks efforts to engage in global warming prevention, to find solutions, and to take action.

Ecoogler - oh what a click can do!

photo by Gabe Korinek - copyright 2007

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