There is a joke (?) about a very devout man, sitting on the roof of his floating house. A boat comes to rescue him, but he sends it away saying “God will save me.” Three times this happens and he sends them away saying “God will save me,” but he drowns.
Now in Heaven he demands of God: “Why didn’t you save me?” to which God replies, “You idiot, I sent you three boats.”
Tonight I spoke to my son in a devastated Australia. Today we saw warnings of rapidly melting glaciers and ice caps, rising oceans, oil extraction, melting permafrost and leading to oil spills and river pollution killing untold life, thousands of birds are mysteriously dying - “the canary in the mine” scenario? Thousands of plane flights are cancelled, thereby saving the temporary destructive pollution they would have created. Do you know how much carbon dioxide one flight produces?
Was that God’s lifeboat?
It’s time to get in the boat and row.
Fran McRae
Clearwater, B.C.