A New Earth
Yet even Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”2 We could say that the
totality – Life – wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't
see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with
what Life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And if it has to die
prematurely, it dies with ease. It is as surrendered in death as it is in life. It
senses, no matter how obscurely, its rootedness in Being, the formless and
eternal one Life.
Like the Taoist sages of ancient China, Jesus likes to draw your
attention to nature because he sees a power at work in it that humans have
lost touch with. It is the creative power of the universe. Jesus goes on to say
that if God clothes simple flowers in such beauty, how much more will God
clothe you. That is to say, that while nature is a beautiful expression of the
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