So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
— 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
“Reaching For The Light”
God and Nature … p 98
Save for those indigenous peoples who, culturally, honour and revere the environment; they who are spiritually at one with nature’s bountiful gifts, mankind in general consistently ignore, or fail to recognize, nature’s significance relative to human well-being, no less our very survival. The whole of mankind, the world around us and all that’s in it, the entire universe: all are subject to the laws of nature, the First Cause, that Primal Force we know to be God.
Knowing God includes honouring and embracing nature in its entirety, availing ourself of its Goodness, while at once respecting its natural harmonies. We begin, quite properly, by establishing a relationship with God.
We know God to be a loving, ever-present disinterested force within us. Our role, even more, our responsibility is to be awakened to that divine energy force and to become one with it. In silent prayer, in meditation or in contemplation we learn to commune with God that we may forever share in His Wisdom, His Goodness and His Love.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
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