More images from nature to bring home the special character of God's creation.
The forms and individual characters of living and growing things, of inanimate beings, of animals and flowers and all nature, constitute their holiness in the sight of God
Their inscape is their sanctity. It is the imprint of God's wisdom and God's reality in them.
the special clumsy beauty of this particular colt on this April day in this field under these clouds is a holiness consecrated to God by God's own creative wisdom and it declares the glory of God.
What an image of hopefulness. What is right before us at this moment...the people walking by...the students studying...those doing their jobs - all this - is sacred and demonstrates the vastness of God's creativity. It is not easy to see things in such a light. With our filters running and our biases pressing us, there are few things we let ourselves see with eyes that pick up on the glory of God. I suppose we all wait for something holy to enter our lives. Maybe we even attempt to enter something we consider a holy time or a holy place. And yet, this grand area of the ordinary and everyday life in which we now sit or stand or walk within...is bursting with the holy. I would say that too often, we are looking so hard we miss so much and then we are left with a false impression of what holy is.
Lord of Life, as we move through this day we need to have eyes that pay attention to the holiness of the moment and the way the holy shines through what may be considered nothing more than a passing ordinary event - no grand insights...no special experiences - just the ordinary wonder of now. Amen.
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