On the clear blue days we need to just let our souls run out ahead of our minds and expand, absorbing the infinite, and tasting the one we love.
Vastness and beauty allows us, if we are present to it, to see that we are so much more than the thoughts in our minds.
For the contemplative, the external world is a kind of mirror of our interior world. Landscape reflecting “Inscape” (Hopkins) with both pointing to the same truth and beauty. The sky above is as expansive, vast, and eternal as the spirit within (Hillesum).
Do we allow the external and material things in our life to become icons, sacraments, and inter-faces to open us to the divine unseen depths within us ? And does this inter-face lead us into communion with our creator, into a loving presence, and a merciful embrace?