I love spontaneous moments. They happen when you need them the most. Our normal evening routine was giving us hives so we went for a drive. Ten minutes away to Copacabana Beach. It may well be confused with nirvana ...
Teaching about God, the Goddess or Divine Presence with children is best done simply. For our very young children their introduction to the natural world is a certain way to invoke this powerful presence.
Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder wrote ~
"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the Christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructable that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom & disenchantments of later years, the strerile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb & flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night & spring after winter."
Schooling in nature means - looking, listening, touching, tasting & smelling. It also means doing nothing, just being, getting in touch & feeling into the present moment. Nature is all around , spiritual practice can be done daily- star gazing, cloud watching, breathing in & out.
