save the planet...

a few weeks ago we started a new series in HSM on the weekends...it's called Save The Planet...it's a three week series that covers God as Creator, our responsibility/privilege to take care of creation, and Christ's reconciliation of all creation...it's been an interesting series...some of the students i've talked with haven't really gotten it...they ask things like "why are we talking about recycling bottles and cans in HSM"...a staff member in another department joked with me this week that he thought our "Save The Planet" theme and series was lame...of course there have been some students and staff that have loved it and get it...

i'm not really a tree hugger/recycler freak...i've always kind of wanted to be...i mean, i do some little things...i have CF bulbs thoughout my home...i recycle my bottles and cans...i buy recycled products as much as i can...i use cloth shopping bags at the grocery store...i limit my gas usage as much as i can (mostly because of cost though)...but i still feel like a wannabe with this whole environmental thing...

i was just sitting here in It's A Grind getting some work done and i noticed a display for One Harvest Coffees...it's a fair trade, organic coffee brand that they sell here...i like that idea too...it all got me thinking...

what would it really be like if we treated the environment like we should...what would it be like if our world only bought fair trade stuff...what would it be like if all of us were just a little more tree-hugging?...

i guess i just found myself wondering if God would be any more glorified...here's the thing...i get it...our environment is going to crap...we're consumers to the point that it is sickening...we buy products that, if we really knew the cost of those on the people making them in third world countries, we wouldnt buy them...it's all bad news...but so many people are "going green" and it doesn't seem to me that God is really a part of that picture yet...glorifying God should be our reason to go green...Glorifying God should be our reason to buy organic, free trade coffee...glorifying God should be our reason to consume less...it should really all be about God...

so for me, i wanna be a God-hugger, not a tree hugger...not a fair trade freak, but a Jesus freak...not someone who saves the environment by recycling, but someone who saves souls by telling them about Christ...I wanna Save The Planet by glorifying God...and that means I'll recycle more, buy fair trade, and consume less...all for the glory of God...

what a jumbled mess of thinking...haha...till later...

(ps- i've written this post three times, and i'm still not sure i am really communicating all that is floating around in my head about this...haha...when i re-read it, it just seems so "duh"...there really is something brilliant waiting to come out of my head...haha...maybe more later on this one)