The Earth

With all this severe weather we are having and the Coronavirus, I was thinking about a boy with a toy.  The toy breaks, for whatever reason.   Maybe he was too rough with it or tried to make it do something it was not made to do.  Anyhow, he brings the toy to Mom to fix it.  Mom asks how the toy got broken.  The boy says he does not know.  It just broke.  He is innocent.  The mother suspects he is more to blame than he will admit.  But she fixes the toy and tells him to be careful.  He forgets to say thank you, and walks away.  After a while, the toy breaks again.  Seems it is rather fragile for the way he uses it.  He goes back to Mom to fix it.  Mom says, you will have to live with your broken toy.  The boy is now angry with Mom, and is stuck with a broken toy.  The earth is the broken toy.  Some people think they are innocent of the mess, and some just want God to fix things up again, though they don't want to change behavior in relation to the earth.  You did not blame the Mom in my story, so why blame God?  We are living with a mess no matter how it happened.