
Waiting in hope? Or waiting for apocalypse?
Dark clouds loom! Increasingly devastating news about climate; wildfires, historic heat waves, devastating droughts and floods, climate refugees; all converge with political news to create an “apocalyptic feel”. With each wave of destruction, it seems as if the earth groans; a “birth pang” moving us towards the birth of some kind of world we haven’t known before; as St. Paul wrote: “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.” (Romans