Please Pray For Us

As most of you have probably heard there is a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The news tonight said the oil rig is leaking 5,000 barrels a day or 210,000 gallons or the equivalent of 23 tankers. If the leak cannot be stopped it can go as high as 2 million barrels a day. Our beautiful Gulf is dotted with oil rigs. Some of you probably have figured out that I live in the South. Mobile, Alabama to be exact and if you have never been to the Gulf Coast you don’t know how absolutely beautiful it is. Our beaches are pristine white and the water is crystal clear blue. We have two fishing communities that still have not recovered from Katrina and now this. Our sister states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are in this boat with us. If this leak gets worse our entire coast lines can be a risk. Unemployment here is 11% - that will probably get better because of this but the price is just too high. But the bump in employment will be washed out by all the businesses that will go under because of this. Our animals and sea life will suffer so much. It will take years for us to regain what we have now, if we can.  However, there will be things that will be lost forever. I may not see it again in my lifetime.


There are already numerous people in all 3 states battling this; however, the weather is not helping we will have thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow and the water is so rough they are having a hard time putting out – sorry I can’t remember what they called them, but they look like really long canvas bags – I will just call floats. They are supposed to prevent the oil from getting to shore. The rough water will enable the oil to jump these. People are ready to start rescuing animals. How do wash the oil off of a dolphin or a whale or the fish, oysters and shrimp?  How many birds and other animals will die before they can be rescued?  The Gulf Coast is going to pay a high price for all the gas that we use with no thought to the fact that it is destroying so much of our earth. We are already losing so much in the production of more oil. If we used that same effort developing affordable alternatives and living more green we would not be destroying the beautiful creation God gave us.

We roll with hurricanes. That is Mother Nature, but this is because of man’s refusal to care for the world we were given and that just makes me angry. If we are not careful out grandchildren and their children will not have the abundance and beauty that we so easily take for granted. This will affect more than just the Gulf Coast; it will affect this whole country. BP oil will get their money back at the gas pumps. It is costing them $6-7 million a day now and price is going much higher because they will have to pay for the entire cost and for the businesses that go under. Gas pumps will be how they get the money back. The price is just too high.

It is my prayer that this will get people’s attention and makes then realize that with abundance and beauty there is an inherent responsibility to protect it at all costs. It cannot be replaced. The thought of what this is going to do to my home state and the entire Gulf Coast and all the beauty that exists here makes me cry. Cry because of the loss and the frustration because this did not need to happen. We as a country are better than this. We will lose things that will be gone forever. The price is just too high. The first price was the loss of the 11 lives that were on the rig when it exploded. Those lives are lost forever. For what? So that we can once again drive our huge gas drinking SUV’s and give no thought to conserving anything. The price is just too high.

Pray for us and start with the families of the 11 lives that were the first casualty of this horror story. As you go about your life give a thought to trying to live green because we can’t get in our SUV’s and go to Wal-Mart and buy another earth.

I don’t mean for this post to sound angry, but I am angry. This did not have to happen. Yes, let’s drill in Alaska and destroy that too. There are alternatives. We put a man on the moon – we can do this. The people need to start a grass roots effort to make government officials make alternative fuels a priority and not just give it lip service to get themselves re-elected.

God bless each of you and pray for us. Thank you.

Earth Day and AHA Moments

I had a major AHA moment a couple of weeks ago that I have been wanting to write about, but I will get to that one later. I want to talk about the big one from today. I was watching Oprah. She does an Earth Day show every year and I really enjoy them. Today she had the people on that won the Oscar for the movie The COVE. I am glad she did. They showed a portion of the movie and I know I can never watch it....I am too much of an animal lover. The Cove is about....in case there are other that don't know....the slaughter of dauphins in a cove in Japan. They slaughter 20,000 a year. The showed enough that the water turned bright red from the blood. How can anyone kill a dauphin? The meat has so much mercury in it from polution that is not really safe to eat anyway. There is a petition on their facebook page you can sign that will be taken to President Obama and the top man in Japan asking that this slaughter be stopped. I hope that all my blogger friends will sign and help get the word out so this can be stopped. I am including a link to their page where you can just click at the top of the page where it says sign.

http://www.savejapandolphins.org/

One of the men that has been on a mission to save dauphins for I think 20 years is the man that caught and trained FLIPPER. He said that Flipper changed his attitude about dauphins. She died in his arms. He said she killed herself. It seems that dauphins do not automatically breathe - they have to do it consicoulsy. He said she had been depressed and took a breath and looked him in the eyes and did not breath again. Now I know some of you will say "yea, right". But we already know how very closely dauphins resemble humans and I have always known that animals are far more intellegent that most people think they are. There have been so many true stories of dauphins saving humans. I think we owe them.

Since this is a long post I will save my other AHA moment for my next post.  I have not been posting a lot lately, but I have been try to keep up with you guys.  Have a great evening.  Let me know what you think of the two heartbeats that live with me.

Reconnecting With Dear Friends

This has been a beautiful and blessed weekend for me.  I was able to re-connect with a very dear friend.  The last communication I had from him was over a year ago.  I kept his e-mail in my in-box for over a year.  At that time I did not have internet at home.  Everday I would see it and say I am going to reply today, but as usual I would get busy and another day would go by. I found his e-mail address at home. Now that I have  internet at home I decided to try and see if he still had the same e-mail address.  He did and we have been swapping e-mails and catching up. 

As we go through life we meet so many people.  Some will just be an acquaintance, some will become friends and a precious few will become very dear friends.  The kind that  you can open up to and that will support you during good times and bad times.  Marion is that kind  of friend.  We have been friends for about 20 years and I never tire of talking with him. He has supported me through some of the high points of my life and the low points.  He is a very rich person - rich in friends - even though I doubt he realizes just how many friends he really has. He is a kind and compasionate man who is very humble.  He always has time to listen and somehow can always say the right thing at the right time. 

I am posting this blog in gratitude for the blessing of having him as a very dear friend and re-connecting with him again.. I won't let him get away again.  Friendship survives time and distance when it is a true friendship.  Another blessing we sometimes forget to be grateful for.  To all the good friends in all our lives - you are valued and loved.