Grandad Reflects on Faith, God, Climate & Environment

Most of us now know that global warming is a fact and that it affects the future of our planet. Those of us who have younger family members including children and adults are rightly concerned for their future. Those of us who have friends in low lying areas and particularly in the pacific island countries are aware that some of them are under immediate threat. Often the problem seems too big, and we do nothing much in resignation.   Here are some simple actions you can take – and if you haven’t already you can begin today. (The good news that almost everything you do will save emissions and also save your money.) 1.        Every night, switch off as many appliances as possible at the wall not just the remote. If there is a little light showing you are using some electricity. Don’t switch them back on until you need them the next day. 2.        Turn off lights when you leave the room or if there is sufficient light don’t turn them on at all. Switch off anything you are not u

I awoke from a dream with the words going round in my head….. Your God is too small. In the dream I had somehow been aware of times of need or grief or fear when I had turned to prayer and yet the words came – Your God is too small. God could not be conceived or as merely a personal support or guide or means of finding peace or healing. Then I had noted matters with the family as a whole where I had cried out for help and support – but again the words had come, Your God is too small. God was not just their to look after those I love and worry for. I thought of our community and nation. Times of pandemic and threats of war. And yet the words repeated, Your God is too small. God is not there to fulfil nationalistic pride and desires – to support wone nation against another. I had dreamed of the poverty and starvation and displacement of people around the world. But still the insistent – Your God is too small. God is not just about the human race and its needs and its amazing ab