Week 16.
Welcome Awake and Creative.
It's a beautiful day.
We're staring out the windows and praising the skies for bringing warmer weather,
Budding flowers and beautiful sunsets.
Join me.
Let's dig in and see what we can discover in this week's quote.
Can she do it?
And she keep it simple.
That's my effort this week to you.
A gift of noticing rather than listening.
As nature turns the volume up this beautiful April week,
I turn to Thomas Merton for our weekly quote.
He is often referred to as a master of natural contemplation.
Thomas Merton was a monk in the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemane,
Right here in Kentucky.
These natural contemplatives,
Of which he's been given the nomiker of master,
Believe that yes,
God is in the text.
God is in word.
God is in us.
But more importantly,
And most noticeably,
God is in the natural world.
And this is where he found it,
That God,
That divine.
So the quote this week is all I'm here to give you.
Go out into nature,
Use it as your contemplative guide,
And then see how it feeds you back in the studio.
Ever in search of his true self beneath his distress and artifice,
He came in time to realize it was none other than his green self.
His original nature healed of inner agitation,
Congestion,
Drivenness,
Turmoil,
And suffering by entrainment to the merciful rhythms of the elements,
The seasons,
The creatures,
And the universe,
In his particular bioregion of Kentucky that he called home.
Go experience the biosphere of your home,
Awake and creative,
Today.
