Joy to the world! The
Lord is come: let earth receive her king;
Let every heart
prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing.
With “Joy to the world” in our hearts and minds, I invite
you to join me in looking each of these twelve days of Christmas for instances
of the joy that runs through all of creation, especially through experiencing
the beauty and wonder of God’s world.
Even this…
New research reported today suggests that global warming
will be at the higher end of the range of predictions rather than the lower
end. This means that we can expect global temperatures to rise by at least 4° C
(about 7.2° F.) by the end of this century. [See Climate
Change Worse Than We Thought, Likely To Be ‘Catastrophic Rather Than Simply
Dangerous’] Worst of all, this research will no doubt go largely unnoticed in the media and by those who form public policies, giving ignorance of our peril the power to keep us from any significant action to mitigate the rise in global temperatures.
The possibility of a 4° degree C rise by 2100 is not news, but increased certainty of the
severity of global warming is newly sobering. Every living thing seems more
precious in light of this reminder of the fragility of our biosphere at this
point in history. Something like this tumbleweed suddenly is precious because
it has a place in an ecosystem that we are losing rapidly. Little things can
bring great joy under these circumstances, but that joy is mixed with great
grief.
Joy to the world! The
Savior reigns; let us our songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills,
and plains, repeat the sounding joy.
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