Sinful weather?

Just now, my face has once again, become warm. I have been sitting inside the library for about 15 minutes and I am now, finally thawed. Those who has never felt the pain of walking in northwest Iowa in the middle of January, I envy you. But while I was walking to the library in -15 degree wind, cursing the freezing wind, I thought to myself, "Has the world always been like this?"

I was thinking in the context of the fall of man. Yes, we all know that Eve pulled Adam down with her but what was the weather like? Now I am sure the Garden of Eden was precisely that, a garden, but I am talking about 'East of Eden’—what was the rest of the world like?

Were their places like Iowa? Were winters terribly bitter and unbearable? I don't think anyone on earth enjoys walking outside right now. Show me someone who likes walking outside in negative degrees and I will show you a looney!

All of creation was affected by the fall, correct? Tsunami's, mudslides, avalanches—OH MY!

It reminds me a bit of what my friend Michael Horton wrote in the Modern Reformation (I spend to much time on Bill's Blog) in an article called Singing the Blues with Jesus. If you haven’t read it yet, you should—R.C. has.