Interesting are the extreme fluctuations in weather out there, the record heat, the flooding rains in Florida, the unprecedented incineration of wetlands in South America. When it’s dry, dry. When it’s wet, wet.
Interesting also, as an irony: on the morning of the torrential downpours in the Miami area (last week), the Mass reading was from 1 Kings 18, whereby “Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.’ So Ahab went up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, crouched down to the earth, and put his head between his knees. ‘Climb up and look out to sea,’ he directed his servant, who went up and looked, but reported, ‘There is nothing.’ Seven times he said, ‘Go, look again!’ And the seventh time the youth reported, ‘There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.’ Elijah said, ‘Go and say to Ahab, “Harness up and leave the mountain before the rain stops you.”‘ In a trice the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain fell.” READ FULL ARTICLE