“Nature is too thin a screen;
the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Very few of us still enjoy reconnecting with the certainties of life, not the ideas about life, but the magnificence of nature. They experience extraordinary grounding, reconnection, healing, and even revelation.
The greater rest of us, however, have a sense of self and identity created by their relationship to thoughts and ideas. Computers, smartphones, the internet, email, social media, and selfies keep us preoccupied – a world of our own fabrication that we take for reality itself.
While calling ourselves intelligent, we lost touch with the natural world and, as a result, lost touch with our own souls. We will not be able to access our full intelligence and wisdom without some real connection to nature!
Yes, we all have a soul, but it seems to be dormant, disconnected. We have lost awareness of the inherent truth, goodness, and beauty shining through everything. A connection and presence that is as freely available as the air we breathe and the water we drink.
Being disconnected from nature, we struggle to love or respect our own soul. Instead, we try various means to get God and people to accept us because we never experience the complete belonging and oneness of being with nature. Contrived and artificial means will never achieve that divine purpose.
Romans 1:20 “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.”
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