Reflection

“Believe one who knows: You will find something greater in woods than in the books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” –St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Prayer

Loving creator,

The world you have made is a lesson waiting to a happen. A schoolroom of wisdom that outshines the knowledge we have coded in books and programs of study. With love for creation, help us retrieve “beginners’ minds” and to revive our awareness of what you have to teach us in the world you have made. May we relearn especially how to care for creation, so that generations to come will not be deprived of the gifts you have so graciously placed all around us: water, earth, seed, and harvest. Amen.

Call to Action

Learn something new today, not by reading or consuming media, but by encountering nature with an open mind.