Insights into the efficacy of nature and how it can impact a person's life ...no less than it has mine.

Nature is the most total manifestation of God and existence;
She is God's Most Significant Other,
His wife and the first fruit of His womb;
She consists of galaxies and solar systems, planets and heavens;
The earth with vegetation, including plants, grass and trees;
Fowls, including birds, chickens and peafowls;
Animals, including man the masterpiece of Creation - nature's
brainchild - and other mammals, both on land and in the sea;
Insects, reptiles, fish, bees and a host of other named and unnamed, known and unknown, species;
The heavens, ever so beautiful, majestic and vast, bedecked with stars, the moon and the sun, clouds, rain and snow; And invisible forces, including angels and the wind that sometimes move with hurricane velocity, sound waves and extrasensory perception telepathically-transmitted.
It is no wonder the Psalmist exclaimed, "The heavens declare the glory of God."
Nature is the ultimate phenomenon, infinite, partly known, partly unknown and partly unknowable to that part of her called humanity.
She is pure reality, yet a mystery.
Although we humans are aware of our aspectual ramification and connection with the embodiment in her essence we, nevertheless, stand in awe of her power as we acknowledge her comprehensiveness and incomprehensibleness.
We delight in the realms of meaning she proffers us.
However, great the efforts we make to avoid nature's presence, we cannot, except for, perhaps, fleeting moments or doing our absent-mindness. But even then nature is present. We interface her in numerous ways such as in the rising and setting of the sun, listening to birds sing, a gentle breeze and in the awareness we have of ourselves.
We cannot escape from nature. We are nature's soul, her beloved and, in a certain way, her chief beneficiary and most gifted enhancer of the earth.
Much too often we resist nature and attempt to manipulate her manifestations.
This conduct invariably brings to us suffering and human misery. There seems to be a correlation between man's attempt to manipulate nature and the amount of despair he experiences.
Most humans have not as yet learned that Mother Nature knows best. Joyce Kilmer understood this truth when he said, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree." What is salvation but being in harmony with nature, moving with her rhythm and flowing with her current. Let this become the axiom that directs your livingness: "Don't swim, float."
Nature is my mother, inlcluidng and beyond Mother Earth. Nature is my father, provider, protector and nurturer. Natrue is my good life, all that makes life good, including air, water and food. I go to nature and abide with her for long periods of time. I know she is always present, but there are times when I am distanced from her and indifferent toward her. Sometimes I experience her as being wrathful and uncaring. These moments, however, are usually brief, having come to pass, not to stay. I have learned much about nature's ways and resourcefulness. I delight in nature.
I go to nature. When I want to be close to God and commune with Him I go to nature;
When I am moved to silence and quietness, contemplation, meditation and prayer, I go to nature;
When I desire rapt sensousness and beauty par excellence,
I go to nature;
When I want to be touched in a powerful way and yet with tenderness, hear birds sing, see the antelope gaze and graze, inhale fragances from flower blossoms, look at the snow covered mountain peaks and the golden valleys and feel the scintilating breeze,
I go to nature;
When I want added strength for my journey, fresh inspiration and a deepening understanding of my relationship to the innumerable components of the gestalt that includes all, even the Creator, I go to nature.
And now, in the autumn of my life, after having seen many risings and settings of the sun and new moons,
I go to nature often, more often now than ever before, because now I have developed a nature-consciousness.
I know that nature is my Source.
So friend, I offer to you my prescription for entering Paradise in the here-and-now: Go to nature, not once or twice, but do it perpetually.
Allow nature to lift your burdens, restore you to good healtth or keep you healthy, surprise you with joy and give you peace.
Let nature help you with self-definition, self-love and selfhood.
Let nature be that matrix where you creatively express yourself, grow and enjoy,
For all these things and even more can be yours when you go to nature.
Once again I declare with enthusiasm and conviction, I go to nature for knowledge, enlightenment, healing, gratification and communion;
I go to nature whenever I feel the spirit moving in my nature-loving center.
I am a nature person.
When my autumn has passed and my winter has come, I will then go to nature and remain there for all eternity;
But until then, even though I will leave nature from time-to-time, insosfar as my awareness and consciousness of nature's presence are concerned, I will consistently and frequently go to nature.
Going to nature makes my life worth living and my journey sweet.
I go to nature.

Copyright 2003 by Uriah J. Fields