Day 30
Grateful, we marvel
Spend time with the photo
Photo credit: P. Ferrick, SSND - and, Yes ! it is a real spider web, very huge, made by an "orb weaver spider", which is only one inch long, but able to produce enormous webs.
The words "awe" and "wonder" are employed at least fourteen times in the Pope Francis' encyclical. Echoing the teaching of Rabbi Heschel that without awe the universe becomes a marketplace for us, the pope teaches that "if we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder … our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters."
So long as we are in touch with "wonder and awe" we recognize a "continuing revelation of the divine" in the smallest and largest forms within nature.
We must first honor and cherish all creation as an expression or mirror of the Divine Beauty. "This, then, is salvation, when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise the beautiful providence of their Creator," wrote Meister Eckhart.
Matthew Fox, Daily Meditations May 2019
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Respond
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Appreciation, wonder & awe
lead us naturally
to a fitting stance in life:
gratefulness.
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Check out the work of Brother David Stendl-Rast OSB
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including his 5 minute video "A Grateful Day'"
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