Today, I’m writing and publishing my very first blog entry! This has been a longtime in the works and today, this gloomy blizzard-like day in western Pennsylvania has finally prompted me to get it started. As most writers will tell you, we sometimes need “prompted” by something or someone to get ourselves in the writing mode; for me, this cold and blistery weather was just what I needed to get the creative juices flowing!
My kids are home from school today — just like every other child in the mid-Atlantic states, I suspect. We haven’t had a winter like this in quite a few years. The snow is already piled high as a result of a storm which passed through just a few days ago and now, my van is quickly disappearing beneath the snow outside. I can’t imagine the ice and snow fortress which will surround my house and driveway when this nor’easter finally passes by tomorrow morning!
I’m listening to FOX News right now and the ongoing debate about global warming… I find it almost hysterical that some still insist that we’re in dire straits because of global warming (as my home is being plummeted with more snow — an inch an hour!). I DO believe we can do a little more to take care of mother earth and it certainly is our responsibility to do so, but I’m not convinced that mankind is destroying and desecrating the earth as some claim, and I don’t believe global warming is a proven scientific problem created solely by man. I think we are an active part of an ongoing transition like the many earth cycles recorded in history before — the “circle of life” if you will. It’s a plain and simple (and smart explanation)… and a proven theory indeed. From a Christian perspective, the so-called effects of global warning (floods, tsunamis, famines, etc.) may very well be the onset of the promised “end days” and the returning of Christ, but we’ll save that discussion for another day…
Well, it’s time I sign off here in this winter wonderland. Stay warm and safe! It’s time for a fresh cup of hot coffee…
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