I had an interesting discussion with my girlfriend awhile back. We were talking a little bit about nature -- forests and leaves, oceans and sand, wind and snow -- and how, even though neither of us are religious, when we're out in nature, we feel something that's almost spiritual. For me, it's a resonance...feelings of belonging, of wonder, of connection (of me with nature, as well as nature within itself).
I'm curious if there are any others who feel similarly. I realize most Christians would say that those feelings are connected with Jesus, like admiring the handiwork of a great artist or the craft of a builder. Of course, I don't think of it like that...the idea of a "higher power" that brought all of this together doesn't enter my mind. Instead, I tend to observe and feel it as almost a force within itself. Regardless of how it's viewed, however, the spiritual aspect of nature doesn't escape me.
I say all this at the risk of sounding all Zen or like a flower child.
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