Comments on: Tree Hugger http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/ Think. Dream. Dance. Love. Worship. Be. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Heather http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-2/#comment-4753 Heather Tue, 20 May 2008 18:38:13 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-4753 You amaze me. I think, if I suggested cloth toilet paper, my husband might think I'd lost it though. LOL! I am bookmarking this entry to come back to and will add your blog to my Bloglines. You amaze me. I think, if I suggested cloth toilet paper, my husband might think I’d lost it though. LOL! I am bookmarking this entry to come back to and will add your blog to my Bloglines.

]]> By: Punkin’ Press » Earth Day ‘08 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-4643 Punkin’ Press » Earth Day ‘08 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:04:14 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-4643 [...] Read the full post here. [...] [...] Read the full post here. [...]

]]> By: PEZmama http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2607 PEZmama Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:24:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2607 Thank you so much for this list. I have been wondering where I could find some simple "doable" ideas to get started on living greener. And I love that you said it has been a long process for you. This encourages me that I don't have to figure it all out at once. <BR/><BR/>As a Christian, I have come to see the environment from a stewardship perspective, so I appreciate finding someone who also sees this as a proper response to the blessings God has given us.<BR/><BR/>I will be back. Thanks, again. Thank you so much for this list. I have been wondering where I could find some simple “doable” ideas to get started on living greener. And I love that you said it has been a long process for you. This encourages me that I don’t have to figure it all out at once.

As a Christian, I have come to see the environment from a stewardship perspective, so I appreciate finding someone who also sees this as a proper response to the blessings God has given us.

I will be back. Thanks, again.

]]> By: JoAnn http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2608 JoAnn Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2608 This is an awesome post. I found it while searching for info on family cloth!! I'm glad to have found your blog and hope to read here more. :) This is an awesome post. I found it while searching for info on family cloth!! I’m glad to have found your blog and hope to read here more. :)

]]> By: simplelivingmomma http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2609 simplelivingmomma Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:08:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2609 Sara-This is YOUR blog. It is for your thoughts, insights, mullings and inspirations. It is only between you and Christ if you are keeping with his wishes. Who are we to judge anyone? If folks do not agree with your blog they need to move on quietly and find one they are at peace with. Freedom of speech. At no point have you ever bashed a individual. If anything you have taken time to protect individuals from harm by informing them. Keep up the amazing work. Melissa Sara-This is YOUR blog. It is for your thoughts, insights, mullings and inspirations. It is only between you and Christ if you are keeping with his wishes. Who are we to judge anyone? If folks do not agree with your blog they need to move on quietly and find one they are at peace with. Freedom of speech. At no point have you ever bashed a individual. If anything you have taken time to protect individuals from harm by informing them. Keep up the amazing work. Melissa

]]> By: sewcreative http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2610 sewcreative Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:15:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2610 Hi Sara, I came across your blog several days ago and have been mulling over some of your writings along with some of the comments that the other readers have shared ever since. Your passion seems to be truly contagious for your readers and you have certainly shared some valuable information. After having said this however, there was something that seemed to gnaw away at my heart and so I took my time to respond. I don't know if you are familiar with Oswald Chambers, but he said it best in his book, "Not Knowing Whither". "To discern that the natural virtues antagonize surrender to God is to bring our soul at once into the center of our greatest battlefield. Very few of us debate with the sordid and the wrong, but we do debate with the good; and the higher up we go in the scale of the natural virtues, the more intense is the opposition to Jesus Christ, which is in inverse ratio to what one would naturally imagine. In seeking the Best we soon find that our enemy is our good things, not our bad. The things that keep us back from God's best are not sin and imperfection, but the things that are right and good and noble from the natural standpoint." What you do Sara is noble and good. Just be careful that your passion for the created never supersedes your passion for the Creator Himself. It can be a slippery road at times, but our Guide is the best! His. Hi Sara, I came across your blog several days ago and have been mulling over some of your writings along with some of the comments that the other readers have shared ever since. Your passion seems to be truly contagious for your readers and you have certainly shared some valuable information. After having said this however, there was something that seemed to gnaw away at my heart and so I took my time to respond. I don’t know if you are familiar with Oswald Chambers, but he said it best in his book, “Not Knowing Whither”. “To discern that the natural virtues antagonize surrender to God is to bring our soul at once into the center of our greatest battlefield. Very few of us debate with the sordid and the wrong, but we do debate with the good; and the higher up we go in the scale of the natural virtues, the more intense is the opposition to Jesus Christ, which is in inverse ratio to what one would naturally imagine. In seeking the Best we soon find that our enemy is our good things, not our bad. The things that keep us back from God’s best are not sin and imperfection, but the things that are right and good and noble from the natural standpoint.” What you do Sara is noble and good. Just be careful that your passion for the created never supersedes your passion for the Creator Himself. It can be a slippery road at times, but our Guide is the best! His.

]]> By: Sara http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2611 Sara Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:34:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2611 Anonymous...<BR/>I too hope to address your concerns with grace and a gentle spirit. <BR/><BR/>Quote: <BR/>I am mostly disturbed by your link to "Voice Yourself". This link is <BR/>full of liberal propaganda and opinions-not many scientific facts (just seeing Woody Harrelson on there really scared me).<BR/>______________________________<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry that you don't like Voice Yourself. I love it! That site is full of wonderful information. Woody Harrelson is a passionate voice for many things that I believe in. Environmentalism, raw foodism, fitness, peace, etc. He is using his celebrity for good, in my opinion, and I respect him. Does that mean I agree with everything that he says? No. Do I agree with everything every "Christian" says? No. I look at each person individually and I look for the good in them. Every single person I meet in my life has something they can offer me. They have life experiences and opinions that can challenge my assumptions.<BR/>I would welcome your opinions about his liberal "propaganda". I guess it's only propaganda if you don't believe it. I think Fox News is propaganda too. In fact, most everything in the media today is propaganda in one way or another. <BR/><BR/>Quote:<BR/>Again, I am all about conserving when it is in line with what God commands us to do, but I will not do it just for "mother earth". God created this great planet and He is in complete control. <BR/>_____________________<BR/>He is in control, but that doesn't mean you should throw your trash out the window. It doesn't mean that you should arrogantly use up all the resources that we have and expect more. I am certainly not a "mother earth" worshipper. I worship Jesus Christ, creator of all things, and because of that, I want to treat His creation with care and mindfulness. <BR/><BR/>Quote: I don't doubt for a second that He knows exactly what He is doing. <BR/>______________________<BR/>I don't doubt it either. God is sovereign. He IS in control of all things. But I'm afraid you're using that as an excuse to not care passionately about HIS creation.<BR/><BR/>Quote: <BR/>Don't sacrifice your freedom or ours for a cause that is often driven by scare tactics, politics and money.<BR/>_______________________<BR/>I'm not sacrificing my freedom...I'm exercising it. <BR/>Scare tactics, politics and money? <BR/>Just because liberals (and I hate labels) tend to care about the environment more than Republicans, doesn't mean that they use scare tactics, politics and money any more than a right wing conservative Christian group does to get their agenda heard. <BR/><BR/>I'm sorry that you were offended/disturbed by this post. Your comments lead me to believe that maybe this blog isn't the best one for you to read :)I'm sure there are many other Christians bloggers who are more mainstream and have the same thoughts as you do. <BR/><BR/>Peace and love,<BR/>Sara Anonymous…
I too hope to address your concerns with grace and a gentle spirit.

Quote:
I am mostly disturbed by your link to “Voice Yourself”. This link is
full of liberal propaganda and opinions-not many scientific facts (just seeing Woody Harrelson on there really scared me).
______________________________

I’m sorry that you don’t like Voice Yourself. I love it! That site is full of wonderful information. Woody Harrelson is a passionate voice for many things that I believe in. Environmentalism, raw foodism, fitness, peace, etc. He is using his celebrity for good, in my opinion, and I respect him. Does that mean I agree with everything that he says? No. Do I agree with everything every “Christian” says? No. I look at each person individually and I look for the good in them. Every single person I meet in my life has something they can offer me. They have life experiences and opinions that can challenge my assumptions.
I would welcome your opinions about his liberal “propaganda”. I guess it’s only propaganda if you don’t believe it. I think Fox News is propaganda too. In fact, most everything in the media today is propaganda in one way or another.

Quote:
Again, I am all about conserving when it is in line with what God commands us to do, but I will not do it just for “mother earth”. God created this great planet and He is in complete control.
_____________________
He is in control, but that doesn’t mean you should throw your trash out the window. It doesn’t mean that you should arrogantly use up all the resources that we have and expect more. I am certainly not a “mother earth” worshipper. I worship Jesus Christ, creator of all things, and because of that, I want to treat His creation with care and mindfulness.

Quote: I don’t doubt for a second that He knows exactly what He is doing.
______________________
I don’t doubt it either. God is sovereign. He IS in control of all things. But I’m afraid you’re using that as an excuse to not care passionately about HIS creation.

Quote:
Don’t sacrifice your freedom or ours for a cause that is often driven by scare tactics, politics and money.
_______________________
I’m not sacrificing my freedom…I’m exercising it.
Scare tactics, politics and money?
Just because liberals (and I hate labels) tend to care about the environment more than Republicans, doesn’t mean that they use scare tactics, politics and money any more than a right wing conservative Christian group does to get their agenda heard.

I’m sorry that you were offended/disturbed by this post. Your comments lead me to believe that maybe this blog isn’t the best one for you to read :) I’m sure there are many other Christians bloggers who are more mainstream and have the same thoughts as you do.

Peace and love,
Sara

]]> By: Christian http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2612 Christian Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:35:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2612 So true what Kim said...One thing that popped into my mind a few weeks ago after seeing the tons of comments on your delurking post and all the people that were inspired to make changes in their lifestyles because of you (including me) was dang that's a lot of crowns. I never truely felt burdened to care about the environment etc until I started reading your site. Seeing it explained from a Christian/moral perspective really helped to open my eyes and change my careless attitude. So true what Kim said…One thing that popped into my mind a few weeks ago after seeing the tons of comments on your delurking post and all the people that were inspired to make changes in their lifestyles because of you (including me) was dang that’s a lot of crowns. I never truely felt burdened to care about the environment etc until I started reading your site. Seeing it explained from a Christian/moral perspective really helped to open my eyes and change my careless attitude.

]]> By: simplelivingmomma http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2613 simplelivingmomma Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:14:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2613 Sara-please post something new! Challenge us. Make us think. You inspire so many people. Of course we do understand you are quite busy moving cross country, setting up a home, finding jobs, buying a car, and most importantly being a momma. Melissa Sara-please post something new! Challenge us. Make us think. You inspire so many people. Of course we do understand you are quite busy moving cross country, setting up a home, finding jobs, buying a car, and most importantly being a momma. Melissa

]]> By: Kim in IN http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/comment-page-1/#comment-2614 Kim in IN Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:33:00 +0000 http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/2007/01/27/tree-hugger/#comment-2614 Sara I know you already know this in your heart,but just for the record.<br />You are an incredible witness for Christ,and our earth. The two go together. It is quite simple.<br />As for Woody Harrelson I'm not sure of the problem there.<br />Blessings of love and peace,<br />Kim Sara I know you already know this in your heart,but just for the record.
You are an incredible witness for Christ,and our earth. The two go together. It is quite simple.
As for Woody Harrelson I’m not sure of the problem there.
Blessings of love and peace,
Kim

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