When you look at a map of the Gulf of Mexico, it looks like a huge fist slammed into the land and left the outline of our circular coastline. Once, millions of years ago that is what happened. A gigantic meteor struck the Yucatan and the immense destruction it caused ended the age of dinosaurs. The Gulf has always been a dynamic place; in flux, susceptible to hurricanes and destruction--the oil spill disaster is one in a line of such events. I don't even want to think about what else could happen.
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Recently I was talking to someone about being baptized. Baptists are called Baptists because after you've listened to the plea of a Baptist preacher at the end of every sermon, to accept Jesus Christ as you lord and savior and be saved, this event is then followed in a few days or weeks by being immersed in water, preferably running water like a creek. In the Bible, John The Baptist baptized Jesus in the river Jordan, so being baptized is symbolic of having your sins washed away.

The preacher dunks the newly saved under the running water three times. All those sins washed away, down the creeks, into the rivers, and out into the Gulf. No wonder we're in the shape we're in--the Gulf is full of baptized sin.

susil