Tuesday 11/12/2013 4:45 AM
The theme for my devotions this week is celebration. Part of my reading this morning included
these words by M. Basil Pennington in A
Place Apart, “We need to let all the beauty, all the reality of God’s
creation enter into our hearts and then enfold it in our love so that it may
ascend to him with that love.”
Yesterday I had the day off from school so Jaci and I went
to Oak Glen or, as the locals here in Southern California call it, apple
country. We sampled different kinds of
apples, apple butter, apple nut bread and apple pie with cinnamon sauce and ice
cream, among other things. We also spent
some time hiking through a local conservation area, enjoying a bubbling stream,
a couple of ponds that were home to ducks, coots and cattails, various types of
oak trees, sycamores, conifers and even a California redwood and a
sequoia. As I hiked along the sides of
ponds, down steep hillsides and along the streams I could see the level curves
and gradient vectors my multivariable calculus book uses to illustrate such
landscapes. The gentle breeze that was blowing
became a vector field with curl and divergence.
It was as if I was observing God’s world with x-ray vision, seeing the
underlying structural beauty along with the aesthetic beauty of majestic
mountains and falling leaves against the backdrop of a deep, azure sky.
Yesterday I celebrated my relationship with Jaci along with
the sights, smells, and tastes of Oak Glen, including the underlying structure
of it all. Today I celebrate the great God
who superintends it all. And what a
wonderful celebration it is!
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