Perhaps we need to put the Bible on a shelf for several decades until we learn how to read the Scripture of the natural world!

"I sometimes think that we worry too much about Jesus Christ. We have, to my mind, been overly concerned with salvation and the savior personality. This has focused our attention to such an extent that we have abandoned the most urgent projects of our times. We have a great literature on the Scriptures, we have a great literature on Jesus, but we have no literature on the natural world and the Christ-universe equation. The Christ-earth equation has been given little consideration. The focus on a redemptive personality has its place, but it is not the whole story. It is not even the whole of the Christ story. I suggest we might give up the Bible for awhile, put it on the shelf for perhaps twenty years. Then we might have a more adequate approach to it. We need to experience the divine revelation presented to us in the natural world. When a ship is sinking, no matter what the difficulties within the boat, . . . when something happens to the boat it must be taken care of first. Excessive concern with the historical Christ is presently just not that helpful."

Thomas Berry,
Catholic theologian

Photos: (Top) Ice on The Loch at sunset; (Middle) Last season's Cow Parsnip stalks; (Bottom) Andrews Peak; All three photos were taken in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, January 31, 2015