Wisdom Wednesday is series of honest, inclusive, and contemplative reflections to encounter pure presence and discover deep inner connection… to goodness, truth and beauty. Join us on Crowdcast.

Adapted from the following:

Richard Rohr, Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi;
A New Cosmology: Nature as the First Bible;
“Creation as the Body of God,” Radical Grace 23, no. 2 (April–June 2010);
Daily Meditations

Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace,” in The Trumpet of Conscience 

Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth

Allison Argo, Crash: A Tale of Two Species,” Nature, season 26, episode 7

Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche

Sophfronia Scott, The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

Sallie McFague, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology

Augustine, De Unitate Ecclesiae (On the Unity of the Church)

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, “Introduction,” in Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

See Colossians 1, Ephesians 1, John 1, 1 John 1, and Hebrews 1:1–4; note all are in the first chapters!