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Today's
quotation:
Love all God’s creation, both the
whole and every grain of sand.
Love every leaf, every ray of light.
Love the animals, love the plants, love each
separate thing. If
you love each thing you will perceive the mystery
of God
in all.
Feodor Dostoevsky
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Today's
Meditation:
How
do you love a grain of sand? How do I love the
curtains that are hanging in my living room? Perhaps
the key to this is looking beyond the things themselves
and seeing the purpose they fill and the processes they've
gone through to become what they are. If we can do
that, we can see how they fit into the world and into our
lives. If we can see that, we can love them for
exactly what they are.
There
is so much more to life than what we see that it's
impossible to start to comprehend it all. But the
trees in my yard and along the street definitely are
producing oxygen right now, the very gas that allows me to
continue to live. Sand used to be stone, and over
millions of years it's been broken down into smaller and
smaller pieces, and now it often acts as a wonderful
filter for water flowing through it, among other
things. Some plants need sandy soil in order to be
able to grow and thrive, so without the sand we wouldn't
have nearly as many plants in our world.
I'm
not sure how Dostoevsky would define the "mystery of
God," but I'm pretty sure that he would acknowledge
the omnipresence of God in all that there is. If God
is the power behind the universe--its creation and its
continued existence--then loving all that we see may help
us to see that power reflected in all that there is.
And once we can do that, we're closer to understanding the
mysteries of life and seeing all of the answers that
surround us all of the time. Our love can unlock
many mysteries, but until we see love as an active
process, the doors will stay closed.
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