Reflection
Summer provides the contemplative eye with its own insights. It provides revelation in all colors and has its own special sounds, its fresh aromas, its own special tastes. In nature there is abundance, a variety and lush productivity. Summer is a season that believes in the miracle of growth and knows that abundant life is possible. It is a season to reflect on the magnificent earth that has given us birth within the loving providence of God’s mysterious creativity.
Prayer
Let summer sing God’s praise.
Action
Reflect on the sources of summer’s sounds and colors. Marvel in oceans and storms. See creation as a reflection of the Creator. What can a God be like who is the source of this creation?
Suggested Reading.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what are we, that you are mindful of us?
Psalm 8:3,4
O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all: the earth is full of your riches.
Psalm 104:5,24
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 8:22
Fall in love with the Earth, this gift of pure abundance that God has freely given us.
Pope Francis
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
Robert Brault
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
I am in love with the green eart
Charles Lamb
Nature is the art of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
mmer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.
Regina Brett