A contingent from Jeff St and 1000 of our closest friends met in the state capitol last week to work to end the practice of Mountain Top Removal. It always seems just crazy to me that anyone would have to argue, "Ya know, it's not really a good thing to blow off the tops of our mountains..."
And yet, here we are again.
A few quotes, today, in honor of this blessed creation and our wonderful mountains...
The nations were angry, but your anger has come. The time has come for the dead to be judged: to reward your servants, the prophets, your holy people, and those who fear your name, no matter if they are important or unimportant, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.
~Revelation 11
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine.
~Psalm 50
God will judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.
The mountains will bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.
God will defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; God will crush the oppressor.
~Psalm 72
You provide streams of water in the hills and valleys, so that the donkeys and other wild animals can satisfy their thirst.
Birds build their nests nearby and sing in the trees...
Our LORD, your trees always have water, and so do the cedars you planted in Lebanon.
Birds nest in those trees, and storks make their home in the fir trees.
Wild goats find a home in the tall mountains, and small animals can hide between the rocks.
You created the moon to tell us the seasons.
The sun knows when to set, and you made the darkness, so the animals in the forest could come out at night.
~Psalm 104
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
~Isaiah 11
Shout for joy, O heavens;
rejoice, O earth;
burst into song, O mountains!
For the LORD comforts his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
~Isaiah 49
7 comments:
It seems impossible that this post has been up since yesterday, but no one has written a 14 page screed about how you obviously know nothing about God, the Bible, or Mountains, and that you're probably lying anyway, but please explain it to me .... yadda, yadda, yadda.
I'm with Alan.
Good job, by the way. Illinois doesn't really have mountains, so we don't have this problem.
I was in Illinois last week and you're right: It's pretty flat.
I was in the bustling berg of Effingham. Anywhere you've been?
I've been through Effingham. Actually, when my wife took a group from church to Mississippi for a mission trip a couple years ago, that city became the subject of a joke I still find funny - they wanted to stop there for lunch, and somebody asked what people wanted to order from the drive-thru, and somebody chimed in, "How about an Effingham-sandwich?"
I'm snickering while I write this.
Yeahh... I'm guessing they get that a lot...
you guys are missing the real point. Its not like these are the Rockies (AKA real mountains), plus they make great golf courses once the coal miners are done with them.
And the "real point" would be, what? That it is okay to destroy the land if it amuses us?
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