By Gardening Grandma
The juxtaposition of three stories in this morning's New York Times made me stop and realize I've been spending far too much time thinking about what's happening to me in my very small footprint in time and far too little time appreciating the great flow of history and God's creation.

On page 1 we learn that Dr. Death, Aribert Ferdinand Heim, never atoned for the atrocities he performed at Buchenwald. Writing from his haven in Egypt, perhaps as recently as 1979, he wrote that it was Simon Weisenthal who invented the atrocities he performed, and he decried the possibility of anti-Semitism because most Jews were not Semitic in ethnic origin.

On the top of the page, we read of President Obama's attempts to limit the gross pay inequity of today's U.S. robber barons. In an article on the same subject, the Wall Street Journal reports "fewer than 4,000 of Citigroup's more than 300,000 employees earned more than $500,000 in 2008." (Anyone reading this work for a company where more than 10 percent of the employees are in that income bracket?)

But then I turn to page 7, where I learn of the discovery of the fossil remains of a 60- million-year-old, 42-foot snake, whose existence will help today's scientists solve the problems of global warming.

And it is then that I realize how I need to step back, take a deep breath, and look around me. I need to be like Jacob, awaking from sleep, and realizing

Surely God is present in this place, and I, I did not know it. (Genesis 28:16)

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