The Greening of Passover

I just finished reading an article from the Augusta Chronicle called the Greening of Passover April 19, 2008. The by-line stated: Preparing the Seder meal combines tradition, sustainability. Staff writer Kelly Jasper, starts the article by saying that life began in a garden, Moses was found in the river's reeds and when he led the Jews out of Egypt, the environment was involved once again. (The environment was involved?!?)And that this year's passover 'holiday' includes Earth Day-a perfect time to teach sustainable habits. There is even a blog dedicated to all this-it's called The Jew and Carrot! The article said that this year is the year of the Green Haggadah. The reat of the article gives tips for a more sustainable seder meal. But I think my favorite line from the article was the suggestion that folks buy free-range eggs, "They taste better," said Mrs. Koenig of Jew and Carrot, and "didn't cause suffering to the animals who laid them." Or better yet,"The oceans are where all life was nourished-We celebrate the Source of Life that is now endangered, and to pledge our help to heal the green and the blue that enrich our planet, lest the salt water becomes tears as the green plants wither"......o..k.....next!

A little advice to my students in anticipation of exams

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Earth Day Ignored By Millions

(Powdersville, SC) - The annual celebration of earth day is today we are informed. Earth Day, started in 1969 as an environmental celebration, and a day off of school, has lingered on as a day for aging hipppies to note on their certain decline, hastening their eventual merging with, well, the earth. "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust- unless you're metal then its rust to rust!", was seen on one 1970 VW bumper sticker at a 9:30 observance event at city hall.
I remember planting a tree at my school to celebrate the first earth day. It was later replaced by a retaining wall for the new gymnasium.

A few college kids and a hippie, some cable TV producers and a story editor for Go Green magazine noticed the day this year. "Gore sort of preempted all the energy from it with his Nobel prize" said one savvy observer referring to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth,which garnered him the coveted award."O hizzah!" offered Brandon Oberle` of Greenville, SC. " I'm pro earth day every day" I don't get the celebration on one day only. It's trendy to make a day of it- go to a coffee house and debate the benefits of going green" Gore only did this because he seeks attention-again I say HIZZAH!"
Kelly Gwinn,another observer said she had no comment. Randee Knight of Easley, thought that hippies huddled under the guise of existential angst. "It pretty clear to me", she proclaimed. Brandon Sims, a piano student who is planning his recital in May stated that his depth of knowledge on the subject was immaterial to the discussion.

Meanwhile, there is more green than St. Patricks Day on TV today.
"With Earth Day,the Pennsylvania primary and a barrel of oil reaching $118- this is a momentous day", exclaimed news reporter, Maisy LeLuke of CENV.

Wow!

Happy Earth day guys.......yeah.

When you ponder the"chicken before the egg "or visa versa debate

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis

Thoughtful video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqeyisb688

We disappoint, we struggle, we abuse ourselves and others with thoughts, words and deeds-
We fail.
We are not able to do any other, because we are fallen man.

Man will never be the answer.

Our hope is in Christ alone.

Into His wonderous light...

If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation,
even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself!

---Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensees

Here is the great truth that, only when we see things in the light of God, do we see things as they are. It is only when we see things in the light of God that we see what things are really important, and what things are not. These things seem vastly important, things like ambition, and prestige, and money and gain, lose all their value and importance when they are seen in the light of God. Pleasures and habits and social customs which seem permissible enough, are seen for the dangerous things they are when they are seen in the light of God. Things which seem evils, hardship, toil, discipline, unpopularity, even persecution, are seen in their glory when they are seen in the light of God.

... William Barclay (1907-1978), The Revelation of John (Vol.II)