THIN ICE

Recently I got this word in the night:
‘The Climate Change needs to cool back down and freeze deeper because so many of us seem to be walking on thin ice… and the ice needs to be thicker.’

Many things I read, and conversations I hear, have a certain theme of vulnerability to them. Thin Ice is an old idiom that according to Yolanda Wegner at Primavera English: “This expression describes a situation in which someone is doing something risky or dangerous that could have unpleasant or serious consequences. If you are walking on ice that is too thin to hold your weight, you run the risk of breaking the ice. It may hold for a while but, unless you are extremely lucky, sooner or later it will break and you will fall into the freezing cold water. In the same way, the phrase “on thin ice” is used to describe circumstances where something could easily go wrong, particularly when someone is engaging in behavior that will cause them trouble.” 

Some Thin Ice issues I see are excessive credit and debt, climate change, artificial intelligence, inflation, Federal budget deficit, general hopelessness, ‘a house divided’ polarized at fifty-fifty in our country, gender jumping, affordable health care, the state of moral values including virtue disintegration, religion without the Holy Spirit or the supernatural, and the list could get long and much thicker than the Thin Ice that so many of us feel under our feet. Pray that something freezes over (including hell) and ‘it will not break and we will not fall into the freezing cold water.’

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Jesus