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July 17th, 2015
Just five years ago.
I was still traveling on the road with Janet, putting on our programs of music and message. We had situated ourselves in the state of Wisconsin for two months, landing in Madison for two weeks of touring. I was touting the publication of two new books.
We were faring well, the weather was beautiful, and the airwaves were filled with information about upcoming pro football schedules and college gridiron action, with baseball playing in the background.
The politics were snippy but still civil, with an occasional reference to the next year’s Presidential campaign.
People were friendly.
Not as friendly as they had been when Ms. Clazzy and I began our escapades two decades earlier. There was a core of “disgruntled” trying to surface but was quelled by the beauty of the Earth, the simplicity of a good hamburger and being able, in the summertime, to buy a nice watermelon for two bucks.
I woke up this morning in Florida, feeling much the same as I did five years ago in Wisconsin.
But it is not the same.
The Earth has changed—not just our society or our nation. It’s not merely a regional war raging somewhere, threatening global turmoil.
The Earth is vexed, and the vexation is upon us all.
From my position five years ago in the Dairy State, holding my two new books, I could never have imagined our country having tens of thousands of people die within a six month period from a marauding virus, with businesses shut down, schools closed, and the entire community of my brothers and sisters wearing masks.
Just five years earlier, we might have giggled in bewilderment at seeing some prig donning one to go to the grocery store due to pollution.
Where there used to be debate there is now debacle—a breaking down of communication into snips, snipes and snotty retorts.
Cameras have stopped rolling in Hollywood, forcing us all into a claustrophobic world of viewing everything around us through our computer cams.
The wars that were started in the Middle East still rage, with the addition of threatening flare-ups. Who would have guessed that Russia would be back, vying to be a world power, or that North Korea, with its little dictator, would have a seat at the table, complaining about the meal provided?
Would there have been some question in our minds five years ago concerning our European allies?
Would we have been involved in a great debate over climate change instead of attempting, in some small way, to address our portion?
We were not better people in 2015.
We were just blessed with a better world.
Now that the Earth itself has chosen to become incorrigible and is desperately in need of people to parent it into necessary submission, we are at the mercy of governmental brats and political tyrants.
If this were an earthquake, we might want to look for an epicenter.
If this were a hurricane, we’d fly over it to find the eye.
What has transformed our world from a fussy little planet into a dangerous, out-of-control time bomb, seemingly eager to destroy us all?
It’s time for people who value sanity to remember what grants us such peace of mind. We must find the key to the door.
We should welcome a season of returning to the basics.
We must legitimately answer the three questions that can transform us from any fiasco and place us on a path of salvation:
- What do I need to stop doing to contribute to this chaos?
- What do I need to start doing to minister to the chaos and make it better?
- What do we all need to employ, to do a better job of saving our best friend—the Planet Earth?
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