Ice

I was reading an article this week. Don't ask me where from as I don't name sources, (apart from the fact I can't remember!). It concerned our body's ability to cope with the differing climates throughout the world. Medical boffins agree that our bodies are best suited for warm, temperate climates, rather than the cold ice and snow.
There are only a few differences (apparently) in degrees between what is good for us and what is not. Look at the following:
24C - top range of comfort
21C - recommended living room temperature
Less than 20C - death risk begins
18C - recommended bedroom temperature
16C - resistance to respiratory diseases weakened
12C - more than two hours at this temperature raises blood pressure and increases heart attack and stroke risk
5C - Significant risk of hypothermia

This is why in winter so many elderly and poorly people suffer so much. Checking the weather around the world today indicates some great temperature extremes in just the northern hemisphere. Winnipeg - 18C, Chicago -4C, San Diego +25C. Moscow +2C, Kiev -4C, Athens +21C.
What happens to the elderly in these towns? Our UK govt reports that they won't increase the fuel allowance for the elderly this year despite rapidly rising fuel costs, which then eat further into their meagre pensions, forcing some to withgo food just to keep a little warm.

God made us and created us to inhabit the Garden of Eden, a warm, temperate place, where no rain fell, yet was watered out of springs from the beneath the earth.
When sin entered the world and man was forced out from the Garden of Eden, and as sin grew exponentially, the came the first rains (Genesis 6) and also began to form the ice and the permafrost in the polar regions. I believe that Ice was not intended to be present on the earth. Imagine there being no cold climate, no frost to scrape away from our windscreens, no snow to clear from our paths, no skiing to watch or take part in. Our bodies cannot survive for long in the cold, yet there are those who dwell in the cold lands, the eskimos, for example, and the odd alpine skier!
Next time you shovel snow off your path, ask yourself, did God ever intend me to do this? It is clear the power of the effect of sin on our world.
I'll see you after I've moved to the mediterranean!