DAILY READING MONDAY, February 17 Psalm 89:11. Yours are the heavens; the earth also is yours; you laid the foundations of the world and all that is in it. In the 1930s, it became known as “No Man’s Land”—the Oklahoma Panhandle, the western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico. Due to drought and short-sighted, ill-advised farming practices, Mother Nature and man clashed—and Mother Nature won. This all began with plowing up the native grasslands of the Great Plains to plant wheat for profit. When wheat prices plummeted, people plowed and planted more in an attempt to recoup their losses. Drought, a naturally occurring cyclical event, came next. Soon, the winds of the Great Plains blew the dirt away, eventually all the way to Washington, D. C., and New York City. Some of the original reactions were to pave the area or cover it in chicken wire. (You can’t make this stuff up.) Eventually, the government purchased four million acres and returned it to native grassland. There are many ways we can fail to recognize God in creation; the Dust Bowl was a natural and man-made disaster of biblical proportions. That was less than a hundred years ago. PRAY for the Diocese of Auckland (Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia) Today the Church remembers Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, and Martyr, 1977. Ps 89:1-18 * 89:19-52; Genesis 30:1-24; 1 John 1:1-10; John 9:1-17
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:24:38 +0000
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