This week I've been thinking about the need to slow myself down and listen.
One of the ways that I am most able to listen is when I choose to step outside the house or office and take a hike. Or sit by a river, or find a flower garden, or ride a bicycle. Partly it's about unplugging from the grid, but mostly it's about admiring the work of the Creative God, and reflecting upon my own nature as a creature.
A short while ago I found these words from St. Basil, written to remind his brothers and sisters to do that very thing – to see the word of God in nature. May they bless you as they've blessed me.
“I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that wherever you go, the least plant may bring you the clear remembrance of the Creator. …One blade of grass or
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. … – St. Basil the Great (329-379)
one speck of dust is enough to occupy your entire mind in beholding the art with which it has been made. …
pat loughery 
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