It is a beautiful thing that we are people who long for more than meets the eye!

“There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun; riches kept for their owner to his hurt. But those riches perish through misfortune; when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand. As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, to go as he came; and he shall take nothing from his labor which he may carry away in his hand.” (ecclesiastes 5:13-15).

I find it somewhat ironic that, in the midst of an economic meltdown, it is the very rich who are more scared of what may happen than anyone else. Those who are poor and have little will just keep on living as before; trying to make it through each day with food and shelter! It is certainly true that what seems to be never ending in its abundance will vanish and be as if it never existed before. For some reason that brings to mind buffalo, carrier pigeons, and dodo birds; all the animals that people thought would last forever so they hunted them to near or total extinction! Even more relevant that things like clean water, supposedly the most abundant resource on the planet, are drying up and will soon be one of the greatest crises in the modern world unless something is done about it.

I heard last week, when snowstorms devastated the east coast and also London, that salt was becoming so expensive and rare that there wasn’t enough for the roads (they even had to import it from South America in the east!). I couldn’t help but think that God was trying to tell us that we must cover the earth before an avalanche comes!