I find God in Nature. Much of my childhood involved camping and hiking. In high school and college I got interested in Indians' reverence for the Great Spirit and his natural creation. I brought my kids up to respect the outdoors. In fact, my younger daughter and her husband moved from Louisville to the Colorado Rockies by choice, where they hike and sightsee many weekends.
A Search for What Is Real: Finding Faith, by Brian D. McLaren, expresses beautifully why I seek and find my higher power in nature. "...that running water and singing birds can become God's voice, speaking to me of joy and comfort...."
Which reminds me of my favorite song of all time, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin: "...And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter."
But I digress. Back to McLaren. "That is why I make it a habit to go into the woods and to walk by the streams.... I find myself saying, 'God, what an amazing artist, engineer, scientist, inventor, manager, and risk taker you are...' One of the essential experiences of mysticism is an awareness of a glory hidden in all creation, in every tree and blade of grass and speck of dust and grain of sand. That experience, I think, is an experience of the creator, coming through the medium of God's creation."
Some sort of an "experience of the creator" is an essential part of healing our addictions. See Steps 2 and 3 if you need some help getting started. And again from Stairway to Heaven: "And if you listen very hard the tune will come to you at last."
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