RAIN!!! Hallelujah! We are so dry, way below normal in rainfall.

I remember well that our Theologian in Residence this year, Professor Larry Rassmussen, said that he doesn't use the phrase "global warming," because that doesn't fully describe what's going on in the world's weather ecology. To express the full scope of what's happening, he uses the phrase "climate change." He pointed out that, as one example of what he meant, that England has experienced tornados for the first time in recorded history! Significant climate change is happening.

Yesterday I read a story in the paper about the severe drought in Georgia, and that they've been slow to impose water restrictions -- because they've never experienced drought to the extent that they are now, and so they've never had a system of automatic water restrictions that kick in. Significant climate change is happening.

Our call is to discern how we can care for God's creation in this time of significant climate change. I am glad that each Sunday's bulletin has an idea of how to do that, from our "Earthkeepers" group.