Signs

“. . . the world is radiant with signs. Heaven is pouring out continual messages, but we can hardly read them, you see, because we are blind and deaf and do not know who we really are. The signs in the earth, inanimate and organic, living and dead, are not divine in themselves, but they are creations of the divine, and this sense is being lost. . .”

. . . “We live and move and have our being within a vast masterpiece. Nature itself is speaking or, rather, God is speaking through nature-”

“Yes, everything speaks because it is given by the Creator of all things.”

“His hand is upon it all, the damaged and the undamaged. We must learn to see the original intention even in the damaged.”

~Michael O’Brien (from Island of the World)