Images of Nature
To be out in nature, re-confirming our connection to that which we did not make, is a form of worship for many people. In fact, it is easy to make the case that many of our society’s deepest problems stem from our dis-association with the natural world. Images of nature permeate our music, our poetry, our liturgy as our understanding of God evolves away from the idea of a supernatural being. Nature provides the metaphors, as in Denise Levertov’s poem “Witness”:
Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils
of cloud, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue,
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or a few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm
that witnessing presence.
Stewards of the Climate
We are the stewards of this wondrous earth With all its teeming life of priceless worth; In all creation God is thus revealed In birds and beasts, in forests and each field;
Read MoreBenediction by Dawn Grace Peters
May the blessing of God go before you. May God’s grace and peace abound.
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