God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The world is charged with the Grandeur of God...why do men now wreck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod."This is all too true. Almost anywhere you look there is some mark of man's existence. Trees, woods, and forests are being torn down, and housing complexes, and shopping malls are being put in. I am reminded of the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell. 


"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"


I somewhat agree with Gerard Manley Hopkins in saying that we have not treated God's world respectfully, however, as Genesis says, God saw us, his people, as "great." I feel that he  cares more about every single one our lives than every blade of grass, or every bloom of a flower. 


Hopkins goes on two write, "nature is never spent. There lives the dearest freshness deep down things." All of these things that men have ruined, the Holy Ghost can bring them back once more. Nature is something that can be brought back, but a human life cannot. Does this mean that I think it's okay to tear down forests? No, not at all. I believe that nature is beautiful, and that we should treat it as such.