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Greetings to my millions of readers!  God love ya!

I was just attacked by my feisty young child, after I pestered the poor thing, of course.  Kids are fun!

Now then, on to the next subject:

I am in the midst of creating a chicken coop!  Yes, I can see you're excited by that piece of news, I would be too.  My friends, Ed and Micheal, have jumped into the fray with me, and this very day we set about building a chicken coop.  Huzzah!  Huzzah!  We have calculated that, since each chicken needs 4 square feet of floor space inside the coop, we need a twenty by twenty building to house our planned flock.  So how many chickens is that, you ask?  The quick answer, which also happens to be the long answer, is 100 cluckers.  "What?  Are  you out of your mind?" you ask.  Well, let's not delve too deeply into that topic for now.  We're here to discuss chickens, remember?

One hundred chickens, when mature, will give us around 90 eggs per day, depending on the variety of clucker, and myriad other factors.  "But what in the world are you going to do with that many eggs," you ask.  The short answer...  that remains to be seen.  But it doesn't take a person with the level of creativity compressed into MY brain to understand that there's a large market out there for organically produced eggs.  They taste better, and are NOT poisonous to humans or the environment, unlike the crap sold in most grocery stores today.

As a Christian, I feel that I have a responsibility to steward what God has placed in my hands to the best of my ability.  This world falls into that category in a big way, and I, as a Christian, have GOT to be at the forefront of the responsible crowd there.  Does that mean that I think every Christian should be an environmentalist?  Yes, that IS what I think.  Why?  Because God told us, way back, to steward the Earth, period!  There, that was easy.

That being said, every one of us should figure out what that means in our own personal context, without using that sort of statement as a cop out.  Should we be polluting the place that God gave us to wisely use?  Should we be participating, or merely not resisting the tendency of humanity to drive species to extinction?  Should we NOT try to live in such a way that we are NOT destroying, polluting, fouling, poisoning, remodeling, removing, replacing, or overwhelming this fragile planet we've been placed on?  Umm, no, we shouldn't.

We disciples of Jesus of Nazareth should be THE environmentalists.  But that doesn't mean we should be tree huggers, bunny savers, fur painters, tree spikers, or other sorts of malcontents like that.  We should simply, quietly, do the work of the King, in all it's forms.  Well, perhaps not always quietly, sometimes you've got to raise a cry.

The main focus of all of us who claim allegiance to Messiah must be to carry out his orders, especially those he gave immediately before ascending into Heaven, namely,


He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. 16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. 20Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.