This morning while reading Matthew 6, getting my daily dose of Jesus' words I am taken with considering the lilies in the fields.  This morning there are no lilies in our fields. The rains have washed them all away and it is freezing outside.  Of course I know that Jesus is speaking in a metaphor here to tell me that I have no worries because he brings these things back each year, He clothes (if you will) the fields, and brings what is necessary to each one of us as we wait on Him.  This is a great and wonderous miracle. And perhaps even though we have raped the land over and over again and continue to have to dig people out of floods, and fires, and these man made disasters due to our greed and distruction our ecological system God provides. This is a great and a wonderous miracle. We do not need to worry. Not about global warming, or doom or disaster. Not about world war 3 or 4 or the aliens taking over our planet (have they?)  We are HIS!  He has promised us that we will be clothed, fed, led into the strait and narrow gate, all things will be added unto us, we will be judged as we judge others, we will find if we seek, we will bear good fruit, and find righteousness if we seek FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness.  God help us.  Take away our pride and greed and our own SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.....much love..C