Friday, May 30, 2008

"Serve God, Save the Planet" by J. Matthew Sleeth, MD

Caleb (one of the program guys) just went to the ER because he cut his toes with a machete. He was just walking and swinging it... and the rest is history.

:/

I found that video blogging is easier and more interesting than this. I've been doing them on facebook. If you don't have facebook, I'm sorry. I'll try to figure out how to get some on here.

I'm reading this book called "Serve God, Save the Planet." It sounds cheesy, but it's SO good. This guy is a doctor and I guess one day he looked around and realized his family wasn't being a good steward of God's creation. So they moved into a house the size of their old garage, his kids hang their clothes on the line, and they only have one bag of trash every few weeks.

He talked about how 1 in 15 people get some type of cancer, and it's all because of what we're doing to our environment, our food, etc. We just accept it as a norm that so many people get cancer, but it's not supposed to be like that.

So this guy (J. Matthew Sleeth, MD) is just talking to far about why we should care about our environment and diseases that have been caused by it. In the rest of the book he'll get into how to do that, etc.

It's a GREAT book and so cool to hear from a Christian perspective. Some people say it's going overboard to be obsessed with preserving the environment, but it's just taking care of what God made and preserving it for our people!

He just told a story about an 8 yr old girl that died from air pollution and it literally made me cry. So sad.

Anyway... check it out.

1 comment:

Those Tonnes said...

heard you are going to be doing the women's program at downline in memphis. My dear friend Richard Elizondo just finished the men's program. Not sure if you remember him. Anyways, love you girl and glad you are enjoying Sky Ranch