one of my co-workers is a deeply spiritual scientist. her stories about nature and astronomy and biology and chemistry feed my wonder for how majestic our god really is. today she told me about a naturalist who, by the end of his life, was spending most of his days and nights in nature. being in nature was like worship for him. he was constantly seeing the fingerprints of god...and delighted in each new moment.
one interesting fact about this man is that he actually spent one entire year in complete blindness because of an accident. his suffering, however, was not something he regretted. it was through his blindness that his eyes were truly opened to god's artwork all over creation.
"Though in that terrible darkness,
I died to light,
I lived again,
and God who is the Light
has led me tenderly from light to light,
to the shoreless ocean of rayless, beamless Spirit light
that bathes these holy mountains."
John Muir
so i guess i'm thinking today about the challenges that we all face...the tough stuff...the sufferings. and i'm reminded today that so much hope and possibility and depth can be birthed out of those things...if we chose to invite god into them.
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