FATBERGS

FATBERGS

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

  Icebergs are commonly known of. But whoever other than Mike Rowe, his fans, sanitation engineers and the people that work at the never-ending dirty job removing them, has ever seen a fatberg?

  A fatberg is something many of you contribute to the building of. It’s made up of grease combined with garbage pulverized down your kitchen drain. A fatberg may be as small as the one about to seal off the pipe under your basement concrete floor or in big city sewers weigh many tons and be the size of a 747 fuselage.

  The small are removed rather cleanly by rota-rooter reamer operated by a neatly clad operator.

  Big city fatbergs are laboriously excised by underground people dressed like Ebola technicians wearing sparkproof boots and suits. Then there’s the glob chemically generating heat, methane, and eating up the oxygen in the air. London town, Great Britain, deals with about 55,000 of various magnitude every year. (The result of generations dining on fish & chips?) Using hi-pressure water jets, shovels, chainsaw-like machines, a fulltime team of 38 people remove the fatbergs.

  Either size fatberg can result in foul back flooding. One of the worst being a guy’s man cave found as a septic tank just before all his buddies show up for the big game.

  Why am I telling you this today, for stinky education?

  No. When I read Popular Science article about the problem with fatbergs, I thought of an important

lesson in the Word of God: ‘There are different ways of serving, and yet the same Lord is served. There are different types of work to do, but the same God produces every gift in every person. The evidence of the Spirit's presence is given to each person for the common good of everyone. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. The same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge. To another person the same Spirit gives courageous faith. To another person the same Spirit gives the ability to heal. Another can work miracles. Another can speak what God has revealed. Another can tell the difference between spirits. Another can speak in different kinds of languages. Another can interpret languages. There is only one Spirit who does all these things by giving what God wants to give to each person. For example, the body is one unit and yet has many parts. As all the parts form one body, so it is with Christ. By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether we are Jewish or Greek, slave or free, God gave all of us one Spirit to drink. As you know, the human body is not made up of only one part, but of many parts. Suppose a foot says, "I'm not a hand, so I'm not part of the body!" Would that mean it's no longer part of the body? Or suppose an ear says, "I'm not an eye, so I'm not a part of the body!" Would that mean it's no longer part of the body? If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell? So God put each and every part of the body together as he wanted it. How could it be a body if it only had one part? So there are many parts but one body. An eye can't say to a hand, "I don't need you!" Or again, the head can't say to the feet, "I don't need you!" The opposite is true. The parts of the body that we think are weaker are the ones we really need. The parts of the body that we think are less honorable are the ones we give special honor. So our unpresentable [KJV “uncomely”] parts are made more presentable. However, our presentable parts don't need this kind of treatment. God has put the body together and given special honor to the part that doesn't have it. God's purpose was that the body should not be divided but rather that all of its parts should feel the same concern for each other. If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts share its suffering. If one part is praised, all the others share in its happiness. You are Christ's body and each of you is an individual part of it.” GW 1Corinthians 12:5-27 

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