The easiest practice of reverence I know is simply to sit
down somewhere outside, preferably near a body of water, and pay attention for
a least twenty minutes. It is not necessary to take on the whole world at
first. Just take the three square feet of earth on which you are sitting,
paying close attention to everything that lives within that small estate. -Barbara
Brown Taylor An Altar in the World
With any luck, you will soon begin to see the souls in
pebbles, ants, small mounds of moss, and the acorn on its way to becoming an
oak tree. …You may even feel the beating of your own heart, that miracle of
ingenuity that does its work with no thought or instruction from you. You did
not make your heart, any more than you made a tree. You are a guest here. You
have been given a free pass to this modest domain and everything in it. -
Anna with our neighbor Anna...
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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