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Several years ago on vacation, a still small voice told me, “Pay attention to what I’m doing among liberals.”  Words of that unexpected specificity don’t come often to me, so when they do I pay attention. Thus began a significant shift in my attentiveness.  What we pay attention to matters. What we look for matters.
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I was changed by an old book many years ago: On the Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards.  Edwards, a leader in the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century, spoke of the need to have the “affections”–the emotional, affective, feeling regions awakened.  He described the hard heart of Ezekiel’s prophecy as an unfeeling, inert, unresponsive heart.  And he had a very physical understanding of the affections, using words like humours, fluids, and the like to refer to them.  The bodily effects of feeling: weeping, tears, a stirring in the pit of the stomach, flushing of the face, warmth.
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So what’s your take on Earth Day?  I hope you don’t roll your eyes from too much ear-time with a.m. (angry man) radio.  Because the Earth is the Lord’s.  Creation is his first revelation, the first language he speaks to us.   And the church in the United States has been spiritually dull to his voice speaking through creation.  To the extent that we are, we’re spiritually dull.
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