In one of his writings, Thomas Merton visualizes Christ as a sort of magnifying glass that concentrates the rays of Divine love upon each of us, thereby enabling us to catch fire with the heat of our own spiritual passion. Just as a magnifying glass appears to be merely a clear window with no substance of its own, so Christ - through humble self-emptying - is present to us as a kind of pure "nothing." Yet in the midst of his transparent love, we begin to glow with our own inward Light!
I believe that when we offer one another sincere compliments, we mediate this kind of love, in the process enabling the truest self of each of us to manifest itself and to glow in its own innate divinity!
Photos: (Top) Three-leaved sumac leaf lying on a lichen-covered rock, Red Mountain Open Space, Larimer County, CO, October 18, 2014; (Middle) Aspen leaf set aglow by late-day sun, with Horsetooth Rock in the background, Horsetooth Mountain Park, Larimer County, CO, October 22, 2014; (Bottom) Cottonwoods, Rabbitbrush and a pond, near Bellvue, CO, October 14, 2014
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