Meditations on Nature

The earth laughs in flowers.

                                            Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on the earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle."   
                                              Thich Nhat Hanh

           "One of the most important and most neglected elements in the 
        beginning of the interior life is the ability to see the value and  the
        beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendor that is around
        us."                                              

                                                          Thomas Merton

     Everything beckons to us.
 

Here is what I tell myself. Be aware, life is what is happening now.