….the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation ~ Ann Dillard
The earth contains riches, and the very air is vibrant with power.
~ The Science of Mind, pg 25
Whenever I feel tempted to think that I lack something or don’t have enough of something, I go back to my notebook of favorite prayers and quotes and reread the one above written by Ann Dillard. Then I simply look around my house and my little piece of Sonoran desert here in the southwest. Even in this semi-arid climate the profusion of life is overwhelming.
Ernest Holmes remarks that we can’t count the grains of sand on a single beach – I can’t even count the leaves on a single branch of a single mesquite tree! The perfection and beauty of a tiny desert flower is as complete and carefully crafted as the magnificence of a giant sequoia. The flower lasts a few days while the sequoia last thousands of years, but the loving attention that created each is the same – extravagant, joyous, limitless in its expression. Look at a meadow filled with wildflowers, then look up at the night sky to see the stars. Examine the reflections of the facets in a piece of quartz crystal freshly dug from the dark earth.
Our universe is boundless and there is more than enough of everything for everyone. It seems God cannot be miserly with the tiniest aspect of Its creation, so why should we ever think God has withheld something from us, we who are eternal, unique expressions of life itself? We are not beggars at the banquet table of life, we are the honored guests.
Today I bask in the extravagant abundance that is my life. My affairs prosper as I see and give thanks for the beauty around me.
Science of Mind
The earth contains riches, and the very air is vibrant with power.
~ The Science of Mind, pg 25
Whenever I feel tempted to think that I lack something or don’t have enough of something, I go back to my notebook of favorite prayers and quotes and reread the one above written by Ann Dillard. Then I simply look around my house and my little piece of Sonoran desert here in the southwest. Even in this semi-arid climate the profusion of life is overwhelming.
Ernest Holmes remarks that we can’t count the grains of sand on a single beach – I can’t even count the leaves on a single branch of a single mesquite tree! The perfection and beauty of a tiny desert flower is as complete and carefully crafted as the magnificence of a giant sequoia. The flower lasts a few days while the sequoia last thousands of years, but the loving attention that created each is the same – extravagant, joyous, limitless in its expression. Look at a meadow filled with wildflowers, then look up at the night sky to see the stars. Examine the reflections of the facets in a piece of quartz crystal freshly dug from the dark earth.
Our universe is boundless and there is more than enough of everything for everyone. It seems God cannot be miserly with the tiniest aspect of Its creation, so why should we ever think God has withheld something from us, we who are eternal, unique expressions of life itself? We are not beggars at the banquet table of life, we are the honored guests.
Today I bask in the extravagant abundance that is my life. My affairs prosper as I see and give thanks for the beauty around me.
Science of Mind
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