🎲 TREE 500: The rain falls

If you haven’t read “What I talk about when I talk about God”, take a couple minutes and do that before you jump into today’s post. It’s an important reference point.

“[God] causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” —Jesus (Matthew 5:45)

Sunlight enables life to exist on Earth. It is the source of almost all our energy. It also burns us, causes skin cancer and kills dogs in cars. Rain waters the crops we need to live. It also causes floods that drown homes and people.

We live in a universe that both nurtures and destroys life. It does both without respect for any person. Whether or not you get nurtured or destroyed (or just bashed around) on any given day has a heck of a lot to do with luck. We are tossed about by randomness, and/or we are caught in webs of cause-and-effect that are so complex they might as well be random.

So…
wear sunscreen,
don’t live on a floodplain,
and accept the luck of life with playfulness.
You can’t control it;
you might as well embrace it as a feature of the game.

That morning she flew. Evelyn the one-eared pig finally felt free. (Fake bronze sculpture, 2022 by DALL-E 2)

Little Simz released an album yesterday! I think this one is a slow grower. I’ll be listening to it on headphones as soon as possible. Here’s an early standout track (Spotify)

Grow in that sun and rain
Jeff