Comments on: Miracles and Change

By: admin

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:29:27 +0000

Thanks! What a great comment. It is true that ecosystems are incredibly complex, which makes them both resilient and sensitive. Resilient because they can adapt, sensitive because they cannot always adapt as fast as they are abused. I once heard it said that ego is Edging God Out, which is exactly what we are doing when we arrogantly make gross changes to our world without thinking this matters.

Rob

By: robustcompost

robustcompost — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:02:03 +0000

Rob ~ I work with soil scientists who spend their lives studying the myriad changes that emerge in long-term organic farming systems. The level of plant-to-soil, plant-to-plant, insect-to-plant and intra-plant insect attack response interactions are still being discovered.
No one fully understands how complexly natural systems respond to changes, but we know hat “resilience” is the hallmark of robust natural systems. Knowing how to encourage this resilience by reducing the environmetal insults that have too often come with farming and other efforts is where science and faithful creation care need one another.
Climate change is God’s way of showing us the limits of resilience, His warning on the results of our excesses, His plea for repentance that leads to righteousness and our more humble role within the created order.

By: Harold Jerrell

Harold Jerrell — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:57:31 +0000

Enjoyed the thoughts and photo. Reminds me of one I took last year from the Pinnacle Overlook at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. It was late fall and suspended into mid air was one sumac midrib contains a few red leaflets with rain drops attached. Another year was ending. Harold