A Pilgrim's Journal

The show is an engaging explanation of the salmon life cycle, the threats to their well-being, and therefore indirectly, the threats to our own. Alexandra Morton explains the common sense details in the clearest manner I've ever heard.

We are basically killing our own resources out from under us, out of confusion, greed, and cowardice. The simple message is manipulated and distorted so that by the time it reaches the masses, it is so fuzzy and unclear that hardly anybody cares about it. It is nearly always presented as some fuzzy potential risk that we haven't quite scientifically figured out or proved. But the reality is that any child, when faced with these facts, could tell us we're stupid.

	My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast
	rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be
	no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
	I will also forget thy children.
	   Hosea 4:6

How can we expect God to take care of us and heal us when we are so ruthless with the world entrusted to our care? Of course, He is kind, but He is also just, and if we sow such destruction, we will reap death.

I just quoted part of Psalm 19 in a previous blog post, but in light of this podcast, the entire Psalm is relevant. I'll quote just three more verses, but encourage you to read the whole thing:

	1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
	sheweth his handywork.
  
	2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night
	sheweth knowledge.
   
	3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 
   
	   Psalm 19

When I heard the amazing systems of the sockeye salmon in British Columbia in this podcast, these verses came back to my mind. These salmon are a testimony to the wonders of God. They have a lesson to teach us, if we will listen.