Choose life
07/29/2010

What should I blog about today?  The fact that Congress, despite the leak of 92,000 classified documents that portray how abysmally the war in Afghanistan is going,  approved another $37 billion in supplemental war funding?  Or that it will adjourn for the summer without addressing global warming?  Or that the U.S. has delivered exactly NONE of the aid money pledged to Haiti earthquake relief?

Or, should I look closer to home, where the wildflowers we broadcast are filling the yard with the most delicate and color-saturated blooms of purple, orange, pink, and red?  Or that the raspberries are ripening daily, each one filling our mouths with their exotic sweetness?  Or that the full moon has been as bright as day each night? 

"Behold I place before you Life and Death and I call upon Heaven (the invisible realm) and Earth (the physical) to bear witness to the choice you make.  Oh, that you would choose Life." 

Oh, that you would choose life.

                                                 -- Deuteronomy, I know not the chapter and verse

May all beings be well.  May all beings be at peace.

And so it is.