Jan Karon, a favorite author of mine, quotes C.S.Lewis - another favorite author - in her book of quotations titled “Patches of Godlight”:
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you will never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of experience”
Godlights … the light(s) of God - whispers to us that we are loved, cherished and “here” for a reason and part of all eternity. In the Bible, new Testament…sometime near the command to “Go ye therefore and teach all nations” is a verse that alludes to the fact that if we miss telling anyone, not to worry as all of nature cries out as witness to the true Creator and the truth of the universe. I confess that I find the voice of nature much more truthful than the voice of “man”. I hear and see God in the trees, plants, clouds, blue sky, wind, soft breezes - in the violence of storms as well as in the peace of a calm, sunny day - in the stars and the moon and the vastness of the universe.
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