Dignity – July 4, 2022
“Perhaps the more superior we believe ourselves to be to creation, the less like God we become. But if we embrace shalom—the idea that everything is suspended in a delicate balance between the atoms that make me and the tree and this bird and the sky—if we embrace the beauty of all creatures, we find our […]
The Spirit Helps – June 15, 2022
“The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God… Creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We know […]
Greening Power
I am still reflecting on the silent retreat day at Dayspring this week. An unseasonably warm late-winter day, our time began with an overcast sky, a soft, warm breeze and bright birdsong. The cloudy sky was like a vast blanket of cotton balls scudding west across meadow and forest. Hildegard’s poem about the ever-creating Source of all […]
Landscape as Theophany – Feb. 18, 2022
“To experience the landscape as a theophany is to take seriously the way the divine can be revealed through nature and through created things. It means we can join with all of the elements and creatures in singing God’s praise.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening, p. 134
