Carbon-The Footprint we need

08/17/2007

Joel Akin

 Imagine a world without carbon. We might as well vanish. In fact if the day of the Lord is to arrive soon then we must have sense return to men. For if we could we would warn men that the day of the Lord is soon to come and if we are wise we will pray instead of act on our own. Now I know there is nothing wrong with cleaning up the earth. It is our desire to see that happen. I think we have too much concrete in our cities. I think we put our houses too closely together. I think we’ve done that as something that is more politically correct then wise.

 Yet if our forebears were wise then they would leave a message warning us that if we did not listen we would grow old and die. And we would never have wisdom.

Now I don’t have a lot of footprints in the fire. If I did I would tell you. I live in a house owned by my family. My parents to be exact. At this writing I have an older truck which does go heavy on the oil and gas. It is older then most at a 1991. It is older then some people reading this but at the same time it might be from an age of wisdom. It is older but it is running. And some of the things we design are built to last a week or two. And then they are made to fall apart. If you wish them to keep running you have to arrive at a specialty convention. And even then it isn’t the average consumer who can figure out today’s technology. And that isn’t right. For if we are to arrive at a conclusion we must find a way of making technology useable. And using something means taking it apart and putting it together as modules. For the module is the way of the future. I know because I plan on making it as a way with Gods help.

Now the module is simplicity. It is from house to storing things in the house. It is the house itself which becomes the storage unit. We simplify and simplify until the house becomes a place of joy. We have furniture for esthetics and comfort. And the ability to use things isn’t necessary. We have built in music and built in television and built in computers. And we have built in root cellars and built in home. Each home has a workshop and each home has a way of living free of others. We each have a room adapted or adaptable as a greenhouse and each roof is adaptable as a garden. Even in winter it is my belief we can make each home fixed in size but adaptable to the extent it doesn’t cost us much to run. We don’t need solar panels all over to survive winter. We need South facing homes and homes with glass above and below. And we need a way of living that will scar life in only superficial ways. That is as low carbon as one needs.

But in our age we are not wise enough to stop there. We want to remove the fat and the fat is essential to life. For if we were to remove fat by liposuction that is one thing but to genetically alter people to lower fat is another. We can, with time, eventually grow dumb enough to destroy the nature of fat. And once that happens we grow out of life. For if God wanted fat free he would have made us fat free. Being fat isn’t a sign of failure it is a sign of sickness. I say that as one who is overweight. Sickness I speak of is of the mind but only genetically. That might sound redundant but remember I write as one who has understanding. That means I know the Bible enough to realize fat is a sign of pleasure to those who need it. It is also a sign that the body isn’t functioning as it should. I say that as one who knows that evil spirits do exist. And if this is a cop out to some then fine. Go but remember God will return and speak of this to people. He will tell them that He made us to be healthy. People have metabolism. Meta means to change and bolism is like the story of the round rock. It is there as a sign of lean fit and cool to hold. Yet we are in an age that thinks it is always us. It may be we have grown less fit and less active. That is a truth of this age. We have more to make us sedentary then we used to. But if our body is fit and bolism returns that bowl ism will be of the person who is active enough to bowl. Now there are two ways of seeing the bowl. First is to take a ball and run it down the alley. Of course the alley being the one place a ball should be played. Second the bowl refers to food. And so food is the ism or realism of this age. We need it to survive and if we are wise we will put the meta bowl or changing bowl into the storage department. That is because metabolic means to change the nature of inside the body. It doesn’t mean to change the food outside of the body. When we change the food outside of the body it is often for the worse. And so if we remove the fat of the land we end up bring in a curse called zero food.

Zero food is the fact of this age. We are trying to find ways of making water fit into everything. We want water to be the force of our life. We want water to fit the bill. We want water to heal. Now water is for healing if it is stirred. Stirring up the fountain means to take the nature of it and purify it to the extent holy nature enters in. To stir the water in the day of Christ meant to add an angel to the mix. Yet if we put a finger in the wash today it becomes unclean. Back then it was the way for the angel to stir in the mix of water and spirit. In this case the spirit of the angel was the gift given to them by the Spirit of God. So the angel stirred in the gift and it was this which gave men freedom.

When Christ healed the man who had been bed ridden and sore he could not move to the front. He saw the stirring but it was rare. And so others were there to watch it being stirred and jumped. They may have been leprous but no one cared. They all wanted it to be stirred. There are many like them today but we would finance it with a saying that if it worked the government would regulate it and try to change the nature of the water. Or they would honor it by sampling it and trying to replicate it. But if God is God and he is then the stirring was there as a sample to men. They were there to find it but not to replicate it as men do. They might find the way it is done but if so they would find it wasn’t as easy to fix. And so the fix in the soup would be men charging for the fate of those who were sick.

As one who is ill I find it difficult to charge a fee for this writing. If I did some would complain that as a Christian I should not charge for writing even if I spend all my time doing so. But those few might also say if I am disabled I should wait, as did the poor man at the back, for the front people to finish. Only it would be Christ who would say “That is unfair” for this man fought to be first but they put him back because he was poor. In those days poor meant no one to support you. And so if you had no support then you had no one to help you. And that meant he survived by hope.

Now he is a man who is in Heaven. He was a man who loved the word and loved to hear it spoke. Yet if we can see it in our age then we know that God is still with us. For I do try to do what is best but I no longer have support. I don’t have any way of charging for my word. So I pray and seek God and hope. I hope that God will help me and hope that God will hear. But years pass and thought God has indicated He will bless maybe I am to ask. If so then give me a check. And if I pass then send me a buck or two. Just remember I try to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Now the fact is I am poor like the man who waited for the water to stir. Yet if I am to help you find a carbon in this story then it must be a story. For I can’t write it in one day. It is a story that might take weeks. It might be a chapter by chapter story.

So I will finish it by saying don’t expect all the answers to genetics. I am not an expert as yet. Perhaps as I grow in understanding God will grace me with knowledge to help you. Trust me that is one of the ways God works.

To conclude I finish this with a doubt of men. Who among you is wise? Who among is you is smart enough to prove to me that we as spirit men are wiser then Solomon? For if we can see it written down that God is in control and see it written as God is writing then who among you would pay for it? Not many. I don’t say that to include hurt but to help you who read to see that we might buy a Bible but we don’t believe. We can’t accept God still speaks. We’ve said “The Bible is enough.” I’ve been taught that all my life. I’ve been taught it is sacrilege to say the Bible isn’t done.” I will say it was written as God desired it. It was changed a few times by men. It was added to a few times by men. Overall it was written with Gods hand.

Yet if I were to add it is possible God still speaks to us like He used to that isn’t wrong. It is only wrong if we believe that God is deaf and dumb and powerless. He is still God. And so I add that I don’t ask you for money. If I do that isn’t fully me. I ask God for help. And if you feel lead to pray or pay then that is up to you and the father. I write this with desire to help you find out why carbon is being delivered to deaths door. For carbon is the one thing in all the world essential to life. Without it we grow powerless and weak. Without it we grow into something called people who are gray. We lose the ability to function and we grow weak and tired. And if it is difficult to believe food additives don’t make us weak. Food additives such as color dye are made from natural sources. And most artificial things come from natural sources. So lets be honest and say carbon isn’t going to destroy you. In fact it is an element. One of the fair elements. Fair means it can be used as a metal but it is not.

So I end this chapter by saying “Don’t let it bother you.” Live life to the fullest but give God the time. He will help you to understand.