MY WAY OF BEING IN THE WORLD

In the beginning God created the world and gave life to everything He created.  Jesus came into the world and gave life to those who believed and received it.  There is an order to life, a rhythm to life.  Nature reveals God’s power and His attributes.  Nature reveals a divine order and a divine balance to life.

I feel it most in solitude and silence.  There is a letting go and a decompressing that I settle into, a stillness that lets me know all is well.  I cease striving and simply BE.

My tree teachers outside my window are covered with snow; they are standing tall, still, and majestic against the sky.  They are at peace and I am at peace as I look at them.  They are in their place, not struggling to be anything or anywhere else than where they are now; in divine order and in perfect balance.  They live quietly as each season comes and goes; not their own rhythm but God’s divine rhythm.  That is their way of being in the world; what they do to be that way is their religion.

I don’t worship these trees but I do learn from them.  I don’t worship nature or the things that God created, but I do learn from them.  They reveal God to me.  They point me to the Creator of all things, as all good teachers are to do.  God reveals Himself in nature and I do well to watch and wait in its presence. I do well to learn from its order and rhythm my way of being in the world; this is my religion.