Expectations

Watching a Documentary about Polar Bears Trying to Survive on the Melting Ice Floes

That God had a plan, I do not doubt.
But what if His plan was, that we would do better?

By Mary Oliver

That's it. Those two lines are the entirety of the poem. She is right. There are so many horrible thing happening in th world and most of them are caused by humans. Humans being wasteful and not careful. Humans being mean and greedy. Humans being spiteful and bitter. Humans being anything but what they should be. Humans are different from animals because we are self aware and because we can reason and think beyond shelter, food, sleep and sex. According to the bible eating from the tree of knowledge not only got us kicked out of the garden but it also gave us knowledge of good and evil. Well, if that is true than why do we still commit evil acts? We have these great abilities to think and to see ahead but we so seldom use them. What if God really did expect more from us? He probably has every right to.