Dawn at Crater Lake Oregon on a Recent July Morning

Field Notes From a Religion-Less Christian

July 23, 2022

One Big Mistake

“The heaven of heavens is the Lord’s but he entrusted the earth to its peoples” (Psalm 115)

As much as I love the mountains, plains, forests, oceans, lakes, sky, insects, mammals, reptiles, birds, meadows, rivers, flowers, clouds, rain, moon glow, sun shine, ice, snow, heat, cold, hail, storms, sunrise, sunset, plants, trees (yes, already said forests), and, what am I missing? Ok, rocks, dirt, magma and volcanic flow, the air itself. As much as I love the earth entrusted to us, I’m afraid the stewardship giving was a monumental mistake. In this 21st century we are now at diminishing returns and over capacity. We know so much that what’s happened is we know too little. Or rather, we have no will to do well with what we know. God will let us be and will never let us go. One will be our death. The other our life.