Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

Worship focuses on God. The more aware we are of Him, the better we will worship, and the more we will realize His presence with us.

“One morning I got up early and walked out…I was greeted by the magnificent sight of the Blue Ridge Mountains rising out of mist, the sun throwing the shadows of the lower peaks against the higher summits, the foliage glistening with dew. The scene took my breath away. I was seeing God’s magnificent creation as if it were newborn. There was no explanation for what I was seeing – the intricate details of nature, genuine beauty – apart from a creator God. This could not be an illusion, an accident, or the result of some random process. While the other planets are sterile and lifeless, this one throbs with life and beauty. God is.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“Yet of His being who shall be able to speak? Of how He is everywhere present and invisible, or of how He fills heaven and earth and every creature, according to that saying, Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord, and elsewhere, The Spirit of God, according to the prophet, has filled the round earth, and again, Heaven is my throne, but earth is the footstool of my feet? Therefore God is everywhere, utterly vast, and everywhere nigh at hand, according to His own witness of Himself…”
-Columbanus, Sermon I

“Contemplate with your inner eye how in a master the many laws of an art or science are one; how they live in the spirit that disposes them. Contemplate how an infinite number of lines may subsist in a single point, and other similar examples drawn from nature. From the contemplation of such as these, raised above all things by the wings of natural contemplation, illuminated and supported by divine grace, you will be able to penetrate by the keenness of your mind the secrets of the Word and, to the extent that it is granted to the human being who seeks signs of God, you will see how all things made by the Word live in the Word and are life: ‘For in him,’ as the Sacred Scripture says, ‘We live and move and have our being.’”
-John Scotus Eriugena, Homily on John 1:1-14

Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trades, their gear and tackle trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
-Romans 1:19, 20

For more insight to this subject, get the book, Consider the Lilies: A Plea for Creational Theology, by T. M. Moore.

Or read the article, “The Existence of God: Seven Threads of Evidence,” by Regis Nicoll.