Our Covenant With Nature

Why did we stop finding holiness in nature, and how do we find it again? The question breaks my heart. Tears well up in my eyes – a sure sign that an ancient truth in my DNA was being stirred up. Am I really finding holiness in nature? Or am I just going through my daily life distracted and unaware?

I was watching a film titled The Last Ice Age by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. (You can watch it here.) The film discusses the mythology of changing landscapes caused by melting glaciers as told through an Icelandic family’s experience of witnessing glaciers over three generations. At the end of the film, the patriarch of the family posed the provocative question, why did we stop finding holiness in nature, and how do we find it again? Read more here…