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From this morning\u2019s CAC reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHave you ever had an encounter like this in nature? Perhaps for you, it occurred at a lake or by the seashore, hiking in the mountains, in a garden listening to a mourning dove, even at a busy street corner. I am convinced that when received, such innate theology grows us, expands us, and enlightens us almost effortlessly. All other God talk seems artificial and heady in comparison.\u202f\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, of course, in the reflection this is grounded in the twisted and uniquely beatutiful trunk of a great cottonwood in the back yard\u2026a trunk that appears to have grown without rhyme or reason, following a path to the sun that we find difficult to understand, but which satisfies our sense of beauty\u2026of rightness\u2026or wholeness in a way the straight trunk of a pine often does not (but always should).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow God reveals himself, to those with open eyes and hearts, in nature especially in the odd, the unique, the inexplicably beautiful, the unlikely thrust of life against the odds\u2026the unreasoned patterns in bed rock, the unruly piles of clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a nature photographer I go out looking. I want to be \u201cexpanded and enlightened effortlessly\u201d. That is what I am doing out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here it is\u2026the unlikely beauty of the common skunk cabbage, attesting to the unlikely reality of God\u2019s love and care, God\u2019s craftsmanship, in the smallest and most humble of places.<\/p>\n

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