The task of the spiritual journey involves discovering the patterns that will enable us to live in the most centered manner possible.

While snowshoeing across Dream Lake, I encountered thousands of different patterns, created by snow filling depressions in the ice carved by scouring winds. When I came upon this particular pattern, it gave me a centered feeling, inspiring me to lie down on the ice and photograph it. Similarly, there are dozens of different patterns present in our lives - some of them meaningful, and some of them not. The task of the spiritual journey involves discovering the patterns that will enable us to live in the most centered manner possible, and then focusing our attention on those. In doing so, we end up contributing meaning to the Cosmos - and to God - as well.

Photo: Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; February 3, 2014

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