Guess you can forget it!

For the past few days I have been inclined to do some more writing, a new blog post. Each time I did not, at least not until today. And as I pen these words, it occurs to me that the idea I had the past couple of days, well, you can just forget about it.
Actually, the idea was quite unrealistic even yesterday or a couple of days ago. Nevertheless, it was a thought.
And that thought got hit with pure, simple reality today.
We are approaching mid-October and here in Michigan the days of October have been marked with temperatures initially in the 80's and then easing into the 70's. It was actually possible to keep the heat off and open windows.
Sleeping with windows open in October in Michigan! Unreal!
Which led me to my "idea."
I was going to suggest that the time draws near when we can start ordering palm tree saplings!
Palm trees in Michigan!
Awesome!
And then today arrived and it is time to don a jacket, shut the windows and turn on the heat.
That is Pure Michigan - in October.
Forget ordering those palm trees!
But the idea of palm trees in Michigan - well, that just invites comments on climate change. Is it getting warmer? Colder? Drier? Wetter?
Is the climate changing?
That is a issue which, of course, some still do not believe.
We can have icebergs and glaciers melting at record pace.
We can have a heat wave baking most of Europe as never before.
We can have historic floods in Texas and storms in the Caribbean.
We can have young Greta Thunberg pleading before the United Nations.
But still we have a debate with regard to the reality of climate change.
Maybe we need a new viewpoint, a change of vocabulary.
Maybe we need to speak of Ecological Responsibility and Stewardship.
Just days ago we remembered and honored Francis of Assisi, that great and humble man who in word and deed reminded us that all of creation is deeply interrelated and that we are stewards of Mother Earth.
In recent times we have had from Pope Francis his encyclical to the world, Laudato Si, a letter not just to Catholics but to all people again reminding us that the world - air, seas, lands, resources - are not our possessions but our care, our trust, our sacred trust. We are caretakers, stewards.
Presently in the Vatican a unique Synod is taking place. The topic under consideration is
The Amazon - its resources, people and importance - all a sacred trust.
We need to come to the realization that The Environment and its care is not a political question.
It is a moral matter, an ethical question, a concern for religion.
If we are to be truly "Pro-Life," then we must be Pro-Environment, Pro-Ecology.
We look for things that can unite us.
This should be it.
We all share the same air.
We all share the same earth.
We all share the same water.
We all share the same responsibility to care for and consider sacred the very things that sustain us.
And we all share Ecological Responsibility and we are all Stewards of God's creation.
Amen!