Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

If you'd like to purchase photo-quote greeting cards, please go to www.NaturePhoto-QuoteCards.com .


In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Christmas is the celebration of God's silence becoming aware of itself in Christ, and in us.


"Christ's birth as man is nothing less than the visible expression of his eternal birth as the Word of God in the eternal silence of the Father.  Of course, in the Father, silence is the fullness of everything.  This silence - fullness becoming aware of itself - is the Word, God's Son.  Christmas is the celebration of the grace of this eternal birth IN US."

Thomas Keating
St. Benedict's Monastery
Snowmass, Colorado

Photo: Cub Lake, Fern Lake Burn, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; December 21, 2012
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