Mother Nature’s fury
To the editor:
Just like the song, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” the heavy rainfall came with driving force during 2018. It looks like the current year is going out with those relentless, annoying rains every few days. The area is saturated again with too many rainy days. You don’t have to be an astrologer to know our weather pattern is changing drastically. We never experienced a great amount of rainfall as we’ve been drenched with the past two years.
My daily walks for exercise and fresh air have been limited due to raindrops on my head. Come on, Mother Nature. Give us a break! We can survive nicely without all this saturation. What’s going on with all these destructive hurricanes and tornadoes? Not to mention the horrendous flooding. Puerto Rico was destroyed with a ravaging storm to end all storms. Thousands of homes were swept away by the ultrapowerful force of deadly winds.
Then the tropical island paradise of the Bahamas became Mother Nature’s carbon copy of Puerto Rico. Both islands are disaster zones. More homeless people than Apple has computers. So much tragedy on both islands, it’ll take umpteen years to rebuild isles that once had extreme beauty. The flooding throughout our country has been heartbreaking. Thousands of folks lost their homes just like the isle; and catastrophes. Mother Nature has been on a constant rampage of violence. When we see “Ole Sol” cast its glorious sunshine, we’re feeling more alive with rays of warmth rejuvenating our aging bodies.
I imagine the farmers are content, their crops are done growing until next spring. Too heavy of rainfall could destroy their fruits and vegetables. If only we could place a straitjacket on Mother Nature to prevent her from further destruction. What wishful thinking — could never become a reality. Evidently rainfall is better than a serious drought drying up our mountains. Maybe Mother Nature isn’t so evil after all. Give her credit for keeping our beautiful state from terrible forest fires.
God bless America.
Earle E. Stahler,
West Penn Township
Comments
God has blessed America, but perhaps America isn't blessing God.
As for Mother Nature? Not sure there is such a person/god.
I do know the Pharisees asked Jesus, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
To which Jesus responded, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."
I truly believe that for America to continue in those blessings from God, we best love him with all our heart, soul, mind, and have no other god before Him.
I also believe God created all of this for us (the Bible says so), and if He pleases, he'll control all these weather related things, even clean up His air for us to breath.
Thanks for the encouraging letter. Have a great day Earl.
You went out of your way to downplay the writers use of “Mother Nature”, to which most people (certainly there are exceptions) believe Mother Nature to be a figure of speech, like referring to time as “Father Time”. I don’t believe you can reasonable conclude the author was referring to a personal god.
But you dismissed the use of “Mother Nature” as an unproven claim, but you immediately inserted YOUR unproven claim you generically call “god”.
Keep in mind there are at least one million gods in India alone, and many of the gods of man are much much older than yours.
Unless you have concrete proof (not faith or claims from a book) for your god, just relax and enjoy the letters to the editor .
Ps- if you find proof for god I’ll be waiting to see you in the press for finally proving what humans have tried to prove for thousands of years
God was, is, and is to come.
I relax in that Tony.
I enjoy the letters too, and most times, even the posts to this board.
Happy Thanksgiving Tony
We've much to give thanks for. (wink)