06/02/2023
“All nature conceals it’s great secrets and cannot reveal its hidden wisdom and profound beauty if we do not listen carefully and patiently…” I absolutely ADORE John Henry Nouwen! He writes “the visible world is the veil of the world invisible”. Perhaps we can see the nature all around us as a visible veil through which an invisible world is revealed.
How differently would we live if we were constantly aware of this veil and sensed in our whole being how nature is ever ready for us to hear and see the great story of the Creator’s love, to which it points.…
• The plants and animals with whom we live teach us about birth and growth and maturation and death and about the need for gentle care and especially about the importance of patience and hope. It is sad that our days are less connected with nature and we to longer allow nature to minister to us. We so easily limit ministry to work for people by people. But we do an immense service to our world if we would let nature heal, counsel and teach again. •
Point of the post? Spend more time with trees, let nature heal counsel and teach you again and again of the enduring, calming constancy of God. If your soul is soothed when in nature; perhaps it’s simply remembering what we know and believe on a Sunday but forget when caught up in our Monday. Here is your little Monday reminder friend 🤗✨
