Lettuce Lake, Florida 2008

Late due to technical difficulties beyond my control

It was cold, dark, rainy and dreary again today and there is no change in sight but I did manage to get out and a little work done in the garden. It felt good and long for more. My life has become too technological recently and I look forward to go back to the natural wonder of nature. I realized this tonight when I went to get out my web page and found the server is down, something that happens on occasion. Nature takes a day off although days, like as of late, do get me down.

At the end of our Sunday liturgy today we had announcements. There were a lot of them and downstairs at coffee I learned of more. I got too many events, meetings, things to do now in my head. It was so much. A friend and I compared it to shopping in the mall where our senses are over flooded with stimuli, sights, sound, smell, touch and taste. Now all of life seems like a shopping mall, so many causes, so much to see and do. Sometimes I think that the ‘powers that be’ keep us flooded with so much that we become numb and insensitive. How do we know what is important, not important or to be ignored when we are so busy to reflect.

The question for our Faith Sharing this Tuesday is “How do we pray.” My response is how one can pray with all the noise around us. Before we can pray we need to find some silence. Being in nature is one great way to find silence. From the Silence of Nature we can pray.

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