{"id":339,"date":"2011-06-28T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/sweetshore\/?p=339"},"modified":"2011-06-28T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:22:00","slug":"whos-in-charge-here-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sweetshore\/2011\/06\/whos-in-charge-here-anyway.html","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s in Charge Here, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhFRvDTU7TQaqAq81rdzB0r0_cb7pgJPLCiPw8GTGKQT6eSiLs\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Mammoth Lakes, CA. \u00a0There&#8217;s still a lot of snow up here&#8211;the higher elevations are pretty much covered with it, and in today&#8217;s weather report, it says it will be 35 degrees tonight with possible snow above 9000 feet tomorrow. \u00a0It&#8217;s the end of June, so my granddaughters are asking why it might snow in the summer time.<\/p>\n<p>At first I just told them to blame Al Gore&#8211;after all, in addition to inventing the internet, I believe he is also responsible for &#8220;Global Warming&#8221; or, as it is now called &#8220;Climate Change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to hear discussions about all of the weird weather that&#8217;s been happening around the world in the last couple of years. \u00a0People have very short memories.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, we were being told to prepare for the coming ice age&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There have been other years when the natural disasters happened with the same amount of intensity and frequency, so there may be some merit to the argument that it&#8217;s all cyclical.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s right, and to be absolutely honest, I don&#8217;t care!<\/p>\n<p>What I <em><strong>DO <\/strong><\/em>know is that God is almost certainly going to destroy this earth long before we humans have with all of our meddling and irresponsibility. \u00a0To sort of misquote Bill Cosby, &#8220;God brought this world into being, and He can take it out whenever He wants to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that we&#8217;d all be better off thinking about the end of the world that God will bring about whenever he&#8217;s ready and start preparing our hearts and souls for that glorious and frightening event that is surely going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Mammoth Lakes, CA. \u00a0There&#8217;s still a lot of snow up here&#8211;the higher elevations are pretty much covered with it, and in today&#8217;s weather report, it says it will be 35 degrees tonight with possible snow above 9000 feet tomorrow. \u00a0It&#8217;s the end of June, so my granddaughters are asking why it might snow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[56,55,53,54],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-personal-observations","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-god","tag-natural-disasters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who&#039;s in Charge Here, Anyway? 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