TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on

[Laura]

On 13 Sep 2010 at 9:34, Theta Brentnall wrote:

> my church moment was standing on the edge of the
> Columbia River, almost a mile across here, and watching a glorious
> red-gold-purple sunset in a sky with no interruptions from horizon to
> horizon.

My favorite place to "go to church" is on top of a mountain.  I love the climb, and I especially 
love that moment when you step out from the treeline and suddenly it looks as if the whole 
world is spread out there below you.  It makes you feel so small, and yet so in touch with a 
tiny part of what the Great Spirit must feel when It looks down upon this beautiful world of 
ours. 

I also love the sea.  Standing on the dunes and looking out over that vast expanse of water 
gives me the same feeling.  Particularly since I know that we have not explored even the 
smallest percentage of the ocean's vastness.  How many of God's mysteries still wait down 
there for us to find? 

How many more wait for us among the stars?

And when we find them, will we have the good sense to look and marvel and leave them 
alone?

Yep, nothing like a mountain top or an oceanside to make you contemplate the Whole.

-- 
Laura
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