Turning raw into treasure
Vegetarians prefer raw food. Anything organic. Well, for me, it is economical since you do not have to freeze and cook all the time. I am not vegetarian but I admire those who are since they have more discipline in their eating habits.
I came across some food for thought that made me ponder on the wisdom of God. When God created the world, He left his creation unfinished. The reason presented is that “we might have the interest and delight in taking the raw material and putting the world together.”
The Gems of Thought by Christian artists cited ordinary things that we oftentimes take for granted…
“He left the oil in the trap rock, the aluminum in the clay, the paper in the pulp, the electricity in the clouds. God left the fields for the farmers to plow, the canals and tunnels for the engineers to build, the mountains to be explored by the miners.”
If I may add, God gave the talent to the composers who write the music, novels come alive on stage with the actors’ theatrical performances. Scientists experiment while our architects build cities. All together, these brilliant men tried to finish God’s creation.
God created men in His image and likeness. Christian artists then deduced that God created us in His own image with latent powers to take the “raw materials” and put the world together.
What have we done to the raw materials? We were good in the first half of the century but faltered toward the second half. So, we should not be surprised and blame each other when we are experiencing global warming, when we are looking for more dumpsites for our trash. We are besieged with more worries. We worry about diseases that are not cured. We worry about pollution. We worry about being leveled more taxes, the existence of more stray dogs, unpaid loans and debts. In other words, we worry about the future.
In our quest for perfection, we strove hard to be smarter, faster, better. In trying to finish God’s creation, with our latent powers, we became greedy. I wish we could turn back the hands of time and live simply instead of living in an acrimonious atmosphere.
God in his wisdom did not want us to tinker with and experiment are our bodies. You know what I mean when people get bigger behinds, lifted noses, pouter lips, so on and so forth.