June 17, 2010 – Catechism 337-349

340 sounds like it is talking about the Lion King circle of life.  Everything, no matter how small we may see it has its purpose in the workings of the world.  Of many of the ideas that I have thought about, this one in particular can really be viewed differently by glass half empty and glass half full people. 

Glass half empty hears that everything is connected and interdependent of each other and may begin to see his own life as just being another cog in the machine of life.  Nothing special, just a small piece to a puzzle that they don’t see or understand.  Glass half full sees this idea and takes pride in the fact that others depend on them, sees life as something to live out to the best of their abilities.

The world is most beautiful when every unique thing is doing what it is suppose to be or is meant to be doing.  What this made me think of is the zoo.  We went a couple of weeks ago and it was fine, but I would imagine it is so much better to go on a safari and see these animals where they belong.  We can’t all go, so it is great to see a bear or dolphin close up, but that is not where they belong and I think we may lose a little of the aww. 

It quotes St. Francis and his Canticle of the Creatures here.  That always makes me wonder.  The Catholic Church loves nature.  They tell us to find God in nature, how it was created, how it works together.  In this, we can agree with the environmentalist and conservationist that want to stop the malicious use of natural resources for greed.  What confuses me is that most environmentalist would tend to side with what could be called the liberals.  That is also the same group that supports abortion.  How can a group care so much and give so much to protect a tree or animal and feel so little for a human being growing inside a women. 

I don’t know if this is entirely correct, but I heard that about 3 months before the Supreme Court decided Roe vs. Wade, they ruled on a law to protect an endangered animal or plant.  They used very strong language in chastising the group that wanted to destroy this endangered thing, then months later found that a fetus isn’t worth protecting.  Just something environmentalist should think about.