Revelation Friday Five

Sally brings us this week's Friday Five on encountering God. I should warn you all in advance that I had a fabulous day at Spiritual Director's training yesterday, and I've been rocking out to Dolly all morning, so there's no telling what might happen here! (Note after the fact: it seems to have turned me into a linking fiend!) Here we go!

How has God revealed him/herself to you in a:
1. Book
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is beautiful to me. God is all over it.

2.Film
I don't have a film, but this scene of the West Wing Season 2 finale gets me every single time.


3. Song
Yesterday at training, we spent our afternoon session discussing and meditating on the showings of Julian of Norwich. As we were pondering her earth/hazelnut reflection

"And with this insight he also showed me a little thing, the size of a
hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand. It seemed to me as round as a ball. I
gazed at it and thought, ‘What can this be?’ The answer came thus, ‘It is
everything that is made.’ I marveled how this could be, for it was so small it
seemed it might fall suddenly into nothingness. Then I heard the answer, ‘It
lasts, and ever shall last, because God loves it. All things have their being in
this way by the grace of God.’"

I remembered listening (over and over and over again, bless my mother's patience) to Christy Lane singing "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands." I can't find Christy, but here's a fun- albeit long- choir version.



4. Another person
Mr. M (of course!)

5. Creation
As we tiptoe into spring, with the trees just barely starting to bloom here, I am rejoicing for life and light and sun!