COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
— Isaiah 40:1
King James Version of the Bible
“Providential Guideposts”
One With Nature and
With God … p. 70
Nature is described as *“the sum total of the forces at work throughout the universe.” Mankind, to be sure, is an integral part of this wondrous phenomena, of the greater natural order governing all things, seen and unseen.
The forces at work throughout the universe may best be termed electrodynamics: the *“interactions of electricity, magnetic and mechanical phenomena of the universe.” In short, the whole of space is an electric field. This is made only too apparent when we experience electrical storms, with the *“luminous, electrical discharge” of lightning.
From a time leading out of dim antiquity mankind has ever sought its place in this grand scheme of things. Allegory and mythology, once used to define our place in the universe have, over time, succumbed to the laws of science.
Witness the make-up of the human body with its untold millions of cells, and atoms within cells, all electrically charged and in constant motion. To our own misfortune, we too often fail to recognize, and to act upon, our intimate relationship with nature.
To undertake a reawakening of the soul — our innate spirituality — is a matter highly personal for each one of us. In the doing, we at once become one with Nature and with God.
Our task, which soon becomes a joyous life-long journey, is one of discovering our divine inner self. We have but to acknowledge God’s Love and Goodness as our very birthright and to do as we would be done by.
In coming to know God we must quiet the turmoil of the mind, allowing the long-veiled soul to play its proper role in our life, that we may be forever enveloped in His aura of spiritual Light.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
*Random House Dictionary, College Edition
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