Down to Earth...
Dear follower of Jesus,
It's me - Planet Earth. I've never written you a letter before but I just had to say this. You see, I can remember when God first made me. Wow, was I beautiful! And God was so pleased with me. He was even more pleased with the people he had made to live on me and care for me...
That's where the trouble started. It wasn't long before people began to treat me as if they owned me. They don't you know. They just took all they wanted from me without ever giving anything back. They trampled all over me and thought I would always bounce back again and have enough to give them. How they hurt me!
And now it's got really bad. It's not just that there are so many more people, it's that half of them are so greedy, and it won't be long before the other half will want to catch up - and then will there be enough to satisfy them all?
Just look at me now. My soil's worn out, I've lost millions of my trees, I'm choking with petrol fumes, and all those chemicals really make me feel ill. I feel billions of years old.
Sorry to complain, but I had to do something. Won't you and your friends start to think a bit about what I need?
With love,
God's Earth