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It seems like this year Earth Day is a little more than a day to make all elementary school students clean up the playground.

From Discovery’s high def series “Planet Earth”, to Oprah, to 20/20 and just about every where else you turn on with your tube this week, its all about environmental focus. When I woke up this morning, I said Happy Earth Day to Hubby with as much excitement as any other B-grade “holiday”. I truly am excited to see more and more Americans and other industrialized countries taking steps to preserve the planet- its resources and animals- in a less human/self-centered manner.

Western awareness of issues like global warming and other effects of the ME-attitude has been furthered by recent movies, such as “An Inconvenient Truth”, “Blood Diamond” and even “Happy Feet”. Those with the large public forum and the financial means are beginning to put their talent into something meaningful, beyond pure entertainment.

Still, the process is slow. Just when I think we’re really opening our eyes in America on the whole, I go to church and find myself in conversation with a number of people who have no idea that it is Earth Day, no idea what words like “organic” or “sustainable” mean. It’s sad that this happened to me at church, too, because the western Christian church has been one of the last groups to open themselves to the idea of environmental issues, when it should truly be the other way around. Why haven’t those who claim to be Believer’s had much impact on environmental causes? Why has the southern baptist convention sat on this idea that because humans are the highest of all created things, preservation efforts should be undertaken only so far as they “effect” humanity?! The logic doesn’t even make sense… humanity, being the sister creation to the trees and animals, etc, but one with the capacity to know and love the Creator, should be the first to hear His voice, the first to act on behalf of His will; to tend to our garden, so to speak, and to care about what kind of mess what we are leaving future generations to clean up after us.

If God built me a home, and I went in and trashed it to make myself as comfortable and profited as I could imagine, how would that reflect my respect and love for the Builder?

So for today, have a little “Faith Flection” about what it means to live like you aren’t the only living thing in the universe.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 pm and is filed under Current Events, Faith 'Flections, Green Living, Pop Culture