Earth Day 2009

Well tomorrow is Earth Day 2009. I hope everyone does a little something to make this world a better place to live. I suggest planting a tree or anything at all. This year, many of the stores are running out of vegetable plants because of the large number of people who are growing their own. Growing your own vegetables does several things. First off anything that goes into the ground is absorbed by the vegetables and eventually end up inside you. Commercial growers use pesticides and herbicides. When you grow your own you can keep your garden small enough so that you don’t have to use those. Also when you buy vegetables from a grocery store they are usually picked green and then gassed to make them ripen. Then they are shipped long distances to reach the grocery store which uses up fuel and pollutes the environment.

Tomorrow we are participating in Earth Day at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital. We will be giving some demonstrations on how to grow your own veggies and how to grow other plants. We are hoping that at least a few of the employees will be interested in doing something positive. Most people are interested in making this world a little greener but there are a few who object. I have heard of a few “religious” individuals who think that it isn’t our responsibility to take care of this planet. They feel that we should just give up and let everything go. Well I don’t think God wants us to do that. In fact it says in Genesis 2: 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

That is pretty straight forward to me but some people are selective on what they believe. Like a woman I met the other day at the Market. We got into a discussion about wine and she made the statement; I don’t mind having a little wine because it isn’t what a person puts in his body that is important but what comes out of his mouth. Well I was proud of myself because from my recent Bible reading I not only knew who said that but what he was talking about. (it wasn’t wine) So I expounded a bit on her statement, explaining what I knew about the subject.
Matthew 15:17-18Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

She came back with “I know all about it because I teach religion”. She then began telling me about all the parts of the Bible that she didn’t believe and how Peter was a fake but this other person was the real Savior and on and on and on. I kept thinking why would she quote Jesus if she didn’t believe in him and just what “religion” was she teaching? I am just glad that another customer came up with a question so I was able to break away from her conversation because she was in the teaching mode.

So anyway, have a wonderful Earth Day. Do something positive like plant a tree or pick up trash or eat a cow to save grass. I just threw that in to see who was paying attention. Oh and I got in 40 minutes on the elliptical trainer this morning. I am on a roll or should I say I am on an elliptical. :)