Oh hey! I’m so glad you could come today. I’ve missed you, it’s been too long my dear friend. Now, I need you to help me with a little experiment and you need to play the role of the judge. Are you okay with that? Your judgement is final so, here goes.
It’s going to sound a bit like a magic trick, but it isn’t. Think of two people you know, any two and don’t tell me who they are. They can’t be you, you are the judge, right? Got it. I’ll call them person A and person B.
Person A discovers they have a talent for making three dimensional models from matchsticks. They take a long time to build and person A is becoming more patient because he/she loves the end result so much. It is an achievement. Person A loves it so much they spend three months building a matchstick city and it is awesome, very detailed, quite beautiful in its own way.
Person B thinks it’s just matchsticks and Person A can make another one, so the best thing to do is to enjoy destroying it. What is it going to do anyway, gather dust and take up room? Person A doesn’t want it destroyed, they love what they made even if person B can’t understand that. Person B says it’s just wood and glue and quite replaceable.
Now you are the judge. Does person A get to keep their creation or can person B kick it in and stamp on the fragile wood?
Person A, right? They made it, it’s their art, people don’t like their creations being destroyed, their sandcastles kicked in, their towers knocked over. So if indeed we are “reflections” of our creator. How do you think He’d feel about the earth being destroyed and abused when it was given freely and with great Love? Shouldn’t we care for the earth like the sacred gift it is? I think so, but what do you think?
It’s going to sound a bit like a magic trick, but it isn’t. Think of two people you know, any two and don’t tell me who they are. They can’t be you, you are the judge, right? Got it. I’ll call them person A and person B.
Person A discovers they have a talent for making three dimensional models from matchsticks. They take a long time to build and person A is becoming more patient because he/she loves the end result so much. It is an achievement. Person A loves it so much they spend three months building a matchstick city and it is awesome, very detailed, quite beautiful in its own way.
Person B thinks it’s just matchsticks and Person A can make another one, so the best thing to do is to enjoy destroying it. What is it going to do anyway, gather dust and take up room? Person A doesn’t want it destroyed, they love what they made even if person B can’t understand that. Person B says it’s just wood and glue and quite replaceable.
Now you are the judge. Does person A get to keep their creation or can person B kick it in and stamp on the fragile wood?
Person A, right? They made it, it’s their art, people don’t like their creations being destroyed, their sandcastles kicked in, their towers knocked over. So if indeed we are “reflections” of our creator. How do you think He’d feel about the earth being destroyed and abused when it was given freely and with great Love? Shouldn’t we care for the earth like the sacred gift it is? I think so, but what do you think?