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Post by cweston on Aug 19, 2019 11:19:30 GMT -8
I recently came across these lines from "Aurora Leigh" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I'm much more a fan of modern poetry, but these lines speak to me, as they may to other nature-lovers:
...Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes
Please feel free and invited to read "heaven" and "God" metaphorically.
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Post by starwalker on Aug 20, 2019 10:20:46 GMT -8
Heaven and God metaphorically or literally, sadly, there are so many who do not see.
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Post by cweston on Mar 2, 2020 7:17:17 GMT -8
Here's another one that hikers of a certain spiritual orientation may enjoy:
Beloved Is Where We Begin If you would enter into the wilderness, do not begin without a blessing.
Do not leave without hearing who you are: Beloved, named by the One who has traveled this path before you.
Do not go without letting it echo in your ears, and if you find it is hard to let it into your heart, do not despair. That is what this journey is for.
I cannot promise this blessing will free you from danger, from fear, from hunger or thirst, from the scorching of sun or the fall of the night.
But I can tell you that on this path there will be help.
I can tell you that on this way there will be rest.
I can tell you that you will know the strange graces that come to our aid only on a road such as this, that fly to meet us bearing comfort and strength, that come alongside us for no other cause than to lean themselves toward our ear and with their curious insistence whisper our name:
Beloved. Beloved. Beloved.
—Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace
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