Responding to "The heavens declare the glory of God"
Posted by tom | Dec 8, 2011"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge."
To God be the glory!
In giving attention to Psalm 19 for a final paper (Psalms at Evangelical with David Dorsey), the life, work, ministry of Cal DeWitt came to mind. Here's some of the recently retired Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, U. Wisconsin-Madison, thoughts on "Is environmentalism an unhealthy pursuit?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB4xVSJaFmQ)
Hosted Cal in Pittsburgh and our family had the opportunity to hear him as part of an InterVarsity Faculty Camp at Cedar Campus a few years ago. Would love to have him speak in South Central PA. The wheels are turning :)
PS. If you'd like a book on Creation Care to add to your Christmas list, I recommend you consider The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action (InterVarsity Press, 2000). Cal wrote the chapter entitled, "Creation's Environmental Challenge to Evangelical Christianity." Yes, Theresa and I were biology majors at Grove City College and practice a form of simple living in concert with extended family :) Now where did those chickens get to . . .
One thing I learned about creation is that creation actually hums. It's really cool but one time I had an experience where God opened my ears to the natural realm and I heard humming. It sounded like the earth was singing. the trees and ground and even basic items like tables or chairs, I could hear humming coming from the items.
I don't know if anyone is familiar with the supernatural, but I'm learning that the quantum level of particles are alive. somehow the particles have waves, which produce sound.
Each particle emits certain frequency which create different pitches so when they combine the sounds, you start hearing music of some sort.
There are different types of waves, one is a wave that is a long wave, and the other is one with short waves. The long waved frequency is louder to hear and the shorter waves are higher pitches therefore harder to pick up with our hearing abilities.
The objects such as the sun, even trees are in motion constantly because the sound we create with our frequency impact the frequency of other objects. I see like a river moving. each wave or frequency ripples with another frequency which create pitches in the air. The air, which has different levels of density than can make the sound of wind.
Wind is lower frequency levels which create louder pitched sound.
The natural earth is made up of energy which make color and sound. therefore we live in a world full of color and music.
Some how the different frequencies emit different pitches so we are able to "hear" nature.
When you go out camping people can hear things more because the activity in the forest seem to have vivid frequency without other distractions such as radios or cars, etc.
For me, I can feel life in the nature because I believe the trees, dirt, etc are actually communicating to another through frequency.
Nature some how communicates that the dead animal on the ground needs to decompose so the nature communicates in a language that tells the dirt to breakdown the carcass.
Some how the decomposition has it's own language because the particles are told to breakdown the physical body of the carcass.
Nature is alive somehow through the quantum level of particle physics and quantum mechanics.
Posted by sergey fox, Mar 7 2012, 13:24