Economies chug along. Entertainment keeps us satiated. But beneath the thin veneer of ease we sense the unmistakable drumbeat of despair. Some among us the young, those close to the land and to the sea take notice and cry out. Their warnings sound eerily familiar.
Disaster overtakes disaster.
The whole land is laid waste. The reader cannot tell when Jeremiah s voice trails off and God s begins. In truth, their voices merge. The pain of those who weep at earth s degradation is one with the grief of the Maker who sees primal disorder on the loose. In the beginning, God created a safe world for life.