The Stepping Stones to Eternity — from Flowering Poverello

From the Flowering Poverello blog, a poetry sequence which, for some reason, especially resonated. I will let it speak for itself, except the resonance began with the opening lines “I had heard of nature as the book of God / But never had the notion rooted deep in my mind’ which reminded me of these thoughts and how we can intellectually “get” or even affirm something, without really feeling it or thinking it through as our own thought.

This sequence was inspired by St. Bonaventure’s work, ‘Journey of the Mind to God’. . I came upon his words and set my mind to understanding . how the world could teach me the mystery of God… I had heard of nature as the book of God . But never had the notion rooted deep […]

via The Stepping Stones to Eternity — Flowering Poverello

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