Water and the Gift of God

This week Triathlon Training in the River Seine was cancelled because of pollution caused by too much rain overwhelming the sewage system of Paris.

Did you know that Coal can be used to filter drinking water? Check out this YouTube video and discover how.

Also this week, my peer review paper entitled Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage was published online. On page 257, in the open remarks of my paper, I make a bold statement.

The black rock we call coal can be faithfully viewed as a gift of God, at least if one considers how important coal was for the ancient Hebrew prophets Moses and Isaiah (Vogt Turner p. 257)

Many environmentalists and corporate media blame weather events on the excess of Carbon in the atmosphere, claiming this excess is what is causing climate change. Yet do you know Carbon is the “building block of all life”?

Environmentalists have linked this Carbon Excess to human behaviour and the extraction and the burning of coal and oil, his oily bride. What do you think? Are coal and oil the problem? Or are unbridled consumerism and prodigal, wastefully extravagant, habits at play here?

My paper “Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage” speaks to the need to stop demonizing Carbon and Green House Gas emissions. The reason being that our failure to redeem our waste is the bigger problem. We can not stop the rain from falling or the human body from creating waste or breathing out Carbon dioxide. Yet we can collect the rain and the waste and use them as a resource and recycle and reuse them over and over again.

Check out this video clip from my paper “Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.”

In this video, the CEO of CCm Technologies, Pawel Kisielewski quotes Mahatma Gandhi believing whole heartedly that “Waste is only a resource in the wrong place.”

Waste is only a resource in the wrong place

Mahatma Ghandi

As for human behaviour that is prodigal, Jesus told a story about that. As the Jesus story goes, the prodigal son took his inheritance and ran away with it. Free from the restrictions of his Jewish upbringing, he spent his inheritance freely on prostitutes, unbridled women and men who sold sex or promoted sex to people looking to hook up for a night or a few hours without the responsibility and suffering that comes with having children.

You can watch this “sanitized” kids version …that leaves out the fact that the Righteous Son is angry because his brother has wasted his father’s money on prostitutes (Luke 15:30). The clip does show the prodigal confessing his sins and asking for a chance to earn back his father’s trust. The clip in keeping with the Parable shows how the Father is overjoyed when he finds this Son whom he says had died and was lost and now was found.

Kids will point out the fact that the Son did not “actually” die he merely ran away from home.

Yet do you see how timeless this parable is? The runaway in the parable gives a sincere apology, admitting he has sinned, and is ready to repent, to stop sinning and wasting his talents on those who are consumed with unbridled living and unrestrained spending and consuming.

Today’s children will ask. “Where is the Mother?” Why is the story only about the Son and the Father and the Elder Bother?

Guide the children back into the story. Have them look carefully at the pictures. All that the Father and the Son and the Elder brother are blessed with comes from the Mother. The Mother is the Light that twinkles and shines in the Father’s eye. The Mother is the Bride who chose the Father as the foundation stone of the life she intends to build with him. As the Christian Story goes in the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, the Father called Joseph almost divorces the Mother called Mary before the wedding. Yet in John’s Gospel, the Father is called Simon bar Jonah aka Peter. He comes through in the end, demonstrating to his sons, his male disciples, how important it is to give honour and respect to the Woman Jesus by putting on the Coat the “outer garment” he had taken off to fish “at night” with his pals.

Like the prodigal in the Parable, Peter becomes the Father who redeems his Bride, the Mother when he dons the Coat (the ABA mentioned in yesterday’s post) and says I LOVE YOU to Jesus the Holy Spirit and agrees and promises to care for her family of penitent sinners (John 21:7-17).

In the Parable of the Prodigal, the Father gives a robe and a ring to the Prodigal as if he were passing down a “patriarchal covenant” that carries with it a profound mystery of the Kingdom of God (Ephesians 5: 31-12) Christians are taught to keep and pass down to the next generation.

As the Pauline letters convey. When a man leaves his parents and unites with his wife, the two become one flesh, reinforcing how the Prodigal the Son repented.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her body? For it is said, “the two will become one flesh.”