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So last class we talked about the Psalms and Earth Day and how they related to one another. Having had some time to think about their relationship some more I began to really become blown away by it. I assume that Earth Day has not been around that long and that it was only just recently created in the past few tens or hundreds of years. And then, the Psalms are something that are quite ancient and old. I assume them to have been around for as long as the religion itself has been around. My guess is that this is from hundreds to thousands of years. I find it amazing that the concept of Earth Day has been around without ever acknowledging it with an official name. This is shown by the various Psalms that relate to Earth Day like things. It is almost like an insight into the future by the Psalms about such a day as Earth Day.
One of the Psalms that we looked over in class was Psalm 104. This basically was the Earth Day Psalm if anything. I notice now that much of the Psalm talk was about circles or something cyclical. Relating this to Earth Day I found that it too was about circles or rather cyclical things. The whole idea in Psalm 104 about lions and man taking turns in the night and day, respectively, to hunt was the main cyclical idea. I see this cycle as a circular thing because it repeats about everyday and well the Earth is just about a circular shape as well. But really, the whole idea of a cycle brings me to the whole Earth Day cycle that is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. The Psalms in the Book of Psalms that correspond to Earth Day are quite cyclical as is the concept of Earth Day nowadays. And then of course, at Lawrence, there is supposedly an all day Earth Day event going on, during the day which is the time that man goes out to work and labors. All of this is quite amazing to me because it all just cannot be a coincidence that they relate to one another even though they are from different times.