Nature Reveals

   When you look at the foothills north of us, what do you see?

   What does your interior sight tell you?  That is, what do you feel, sense, encounter when you see something grand?

   Psalm 121, in the Bible, begins,

“I lift up my eyes to the hills—

from where will my help come?

My help comes from the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.”

   Nature reveals God.  Nature can give us a sense of majesty, an incomprehensible mix of things that seem to us both good and bad, a wave-length, a resonance.

   But, nature itself is not God.

   Our help comes from God, who made Nature.

   Our help comes from the crucified one who redeems a fallen Creation.

   Our Help tells us this story in Lent.