Reflection for July 14

Renewable Energy
Energy, William Blake said, is eternal delight. But Blake was wrong; energy is a youthful, and therefore transient and corruptible, delight. Eternal delight reveals itself not when we possess energy in natural abundance, but when our energy is depleted and then mysteriously renewed by a source outside ourselves (Carol Zaleski, “Renewable energy: On the other side of mortal travail, Christian Century, November 30, 2004).