Noticing God in Nature
I’m sitting at a highway rest area not far from where I grew, up looking at a wall of green trees that remind me of playing in the woods as a little boy around our house in East Texas. I used to run and play, and let my imagination run and play as well. Later, when I went to church camp, I heard the description of what I had experienced: ”Connecting with God in nature.” As I grew up and learned to navigate the world as an adult, having my first job within the church, I would still return again and again to be with God in nature especially at decision points in my journey. I would go into wilderness places and pray. As I grew older, found new ways to play through canoeing, mountain biking, hiking longer trails, or camping out. All of them putting me in close contact with God‘s beautiful, good creation. When I was learning to meditate my favorite place to practice would be outside near a stream where I wou...