Sometimes the news is so bad that we need to remember that God is in charge of the world and the entire universe and the sun rises each morning, even when we cannot see it. Autumn is coming but, out here in California we do not see many trees turning color; there is one in our patio whose leaves are red with the first cool day. Our apple tree just had a great crop of green apples and our numerous squirrels and our rabbits have feasted on many. Some of the bunnies escaped from the school's animal compound and three have been seen in our patio. One is a small black one; the others are white with black ears, and one has a black mouth and the other has a black eye. It is fun to watch them and they seem happy to be free.
I want to share a quote from Teilhard de Chardin's Divine Milieu that I prayed over today:
"God does not offer Himself to our finite beings as a thing all complete and ready to be embraced. For us, He is eternal discovery and eternal growth. The more we think we understand Him, the more he reveals himself as otherwise. The more we think we hold him, the further He withdraws, drawing us into the depths of himself." (I found and copied this quote from Richard Rohr's "Universal Christ", page 78 - sometimes the quote has a capital H and sometimes a small h).
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