WHEN DESPAIR AND FEAR GROW: REST IN THE GRACE OF THE WORLD

three cranes at pond

"When despair for the world grows in me... I rest in the grace of the world, and I am free."   

                 - Wendell Berry

 In The Peace of Wild Things, poet Wendell Berry shares the power that nature holds for him. 

When he fears what the future might hold  for him and his children, he goes to "where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds."

In the midst of the world's business and busyness, whether we go in reality or in our imagination, let's often bring ourselves  to a place where we can be soothed, healed, and uplifted      by the grace of the natural world.May we rest in beauty and peace, and faith too,with reverence for life as a touchstone.