@heidilifeldman The news yesterday about the end of the Forest Service hit me harder than I expected it to.

I chalk it up to being born and raised in the West—a lot of folks in today’s Congress have never seen the land protected by the Forest Service.

What a shame.

When I was a kid, some guy a generation older than my dad (who recently died at 96), mentioned that it was a good thing that so much of the West was protected land. “otherwise it’d just be ruined”

#prophetic

#John the Baptist's exhortations were consistent with the #prophetic tradition of old. 

He charged the people to seek justice and equity.  He warned them against presuming their election guaranteed their salvation. 

He spoke of the wrath of God which was coming, the great and terrible day of YHWH, a day of #judgment. 

Judgment came against Israel forty years later. 

#John the Baptist's exhortations were consistent with the #prophetic tradition of old. 

He charged the people to seek justice and equity.  He warned them against presuming their election guaranteed their salvation. 

He spoke of the wrath of God which was coming, the great and terrible day of YHWH, a day of #judgment. 

Judgment came against Israel forty years later.