Perhaps the true nature of the Earth is to be heavenly!

"Heavenliness - again.  For instance, walking  yesterday afternoon - as if my feet acquired a heavenly lightness from contact with the earth.  As though the earth itself were filled with an indescribable spirituality and lightness, as if the true nature of the earth were to be heavenly, or rather as if all things, in truth, had a heavenly existence.  As if existence itself was heavenliness . . . , all transformed!"

Thomas Merton

Photo: Sometimes the light is absolutely exquisite, shining as though through a tunnel of clouds - for just a few moments. Globeflower blooms, Lion Lakes, Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 15, 2012