Following my second half resolution, I have now come again to the end of another week (week 10 - wow!! I cant believe it!). This week was a scary one, not any fault of mine - well let me reconsider that, because it is the sin of the whole human race in what we have done and left undone. So what happened this week? The threat of tornadoes upon tornadoes. All students, faculty and staff who were in the building when the sirens went off had to assemble in the basement. Mark you, I thought what I was hearing were the sirens of police cars or fire trucks although I could not see why their sirens were on for so long or where they were located. Of course no sooner had learnt that there was a tornado warning and I had to go in the basement. While in the basement I had a pretty stimulating conversation with the president of the college while we watched the weather report on the television. We spoke about many things among which he said that tornadoes are uncommon this time of year. Since I have been here I have been hearing many of that saying: 'this is unusual this time of the year', in relation to the weather. This is something that is happening the world over. It is the same cry in the Caribbean, Asia, Europe ect... Weather systems and patterns are changing. This as I hinted at, is the sin of the whole world. We have polluted, and destroyed the earth over the years both in what we have done and left undone. This is a sin that we don't hear the religious fanatics preaching very much these days, they are rather fixated on what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms while the world in which we live is being destroyed. We need to hear more sermons on taking care of the environment and actions too! In the meantime until all the measures are put in place to start taking better care of the environment, we will continue to face the consequences of our actions, then we'll be calling on God as if it were God who came and made a mess of the place.
