A great day was had by all in the Wright household as some wonderful spring weather allowed outdoor activities the upper hand.
The sheep seemed impressed too...
The view in the picture is from the bottom of our garden as the sun set, and as you can probably imagine we find God's creation a strong focus in our spiritual lives.
Our responsibility for this creation is something I muse over a lot...
... no I am not going to give chapter and verse on being green or eco friendly (not least because it would most probably be hypocritical of me) I just want to share the following (food for thought) which I have come across in the past few days:
"So drastic was the impact of European settlement that one geographer was moved to note that human-sponsored modification of landscapes which had taken place over twenty centuries in Europe and four in North America had occurred in New Zealand in only one century. And an environmental historian, Alfred Crosby, likened the process to "giant viruses fastening to the sides of gigantic bacterium and injecting into it their DNA, usurping its internal processes for their own purposes"."1
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"True, it (climate change) probably won't be the end of the world, says Lister, but this is an incredibly irresponsible view and could well backfire on us. "Humans evolved within a certain ecosystem," he says...As things stand, we're not only going to cause problems for communities around the world that are vulnerable to rising sea-levels, flooding and droughts. We could end up destroying the very ecosystem in which we evolved."2
The following is taken from the first chapter of Genesis:
"In the beginning God created...and it was good...and it was good...and it was good ...and it was good...God created man...God blessed them...God saw everything that he had made... it was very good."
As I checked on the boys, who were sound asleep after a day of fun in the fresh air, I wondered what sort of outdoor life their children (God willing) may have!
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1 Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand (Auckland, New Zealand: 2003), p. 25.
2 Charles Furniss, Geographical Magazine, Dossier/Climate Change (London: May 2006 edition), p. 56.
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