Nature Spirituality: Praying with Wind Water Earth Fire

The presence of the Divine is everywhere. That is both a comfort and a challenge. We are consoled to know that God is with us but being human we need a sign something to touch see hear taste smell. We need something of the ordinary to name the non-touchable invisible unable-to-be-heard tasteless odorless Gods presence with us. So we employ metaphors figures of speech which literally denote one kind of object in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy. In this book the metaphors used for God come out of the Bible; they are the four elements of nature for the Greeks: wind water earth and fire. Wind is a metaphor for Gods Spirit. Water refers to God as the source of life. Earth from which we are created bears Gods fingerprints and footprints. And fire reminds us of the God who purifies and draws all creation to himself. This nature spirituality book consists of four chapters--wind water earth fire--each of which contains twenty four-part exercises of prayer: a few verses from Scripture a reflection a journal exercise and a concluding prayer.