Howdy, Pilgrim
Writes Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek:
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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I like the image (which I’m giving a positive reading) of constant energy, of the incredible wonder and amazingly dense marvels of the creation that keep getting thrown hither and thither (by God’s hand)
I’ve never really thought of that energy thing. Quite interesting. But every time a non-Chrisitian says “I don’t believe in God,” I show them landscape oddities like clouds or a sunset and they often get real quiet-like afterwards.