March 22, 2006

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (the 3 R's)

medium_b000cr7rde.01._sclzzzzzzz_.jpgMy wife bought me the new Jack Johnson CD, Sing-a-Longs and Lullabies from the Film 'Curious George.' I'm a big Jack Johnson fan, and I absolutely love the new CD. I know, it's a bunch of kid songs, but the melodies are contagious and the songs stick in your head.


There's one song I particularly like that also makes me think a little: The 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). It's a sing-a-long song featuring a bunch of kids and the theme of it all is - you guessed it - environmental awareness and conservation. I love the fact that Johnson is so passionate about this and it makes me consistently realize how much I struggle in this area. I love to preach about conservation and cleaning up the earth, but I so often am so guilty of adding to the mess that humanity produces. And this song serves as a great reminder for that.


This is also a topic that seems to be forgotten a lot in society. Occasionally, films like "The Day After Tomorrow" usemedium_jack_johnson4_012705_1.jpg extreme examples to try and raise awareness, but I wonder how effective those examples always are. And here in the United States (and around the world), we're seeing first hand the effects of global warming, but nobody's really paying attention and doing much to conserve our resources. Instead, we're still battling over which ecosystems to drill for oil in. The weather around us is consistently getting worse and while that alone should be enough to wake us up to things we can do to help, we still ignore it for the most part. I wonder if in the process of that, we're ignoring God?


And I can't go looking for the speck in society's eye when I have a plank in my own. This is something I feel the Holy Spirit dealing with me on. I so need to do better about the three R's: reducing, reusing, and recycling. I know this is a topic that's not always popular for comments, but it's something I'm working on. And it took a Jack Johnson song to remind me about it.


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