Monday, September 10, 2012

The forms and individual characters of things constitute their holiness in the sight of God.


"The forms and individual characters of living and growing things, of inanimate being, of animals and flowers and all Nature, constitute their holiness in the sight of God.  This leaf has its own texture and its own pattern of veins and its own holy shape, and the bass and trout hiding in the deep pools of the river are canonized by their beauty and their strength."

Thomas Merton
Trappist Monk

Photo: Thimbleberry leaves at Cub Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; September 9, 2012

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