Summer's bounty brought to you by Source

Summer’s bounty brought to you by Source

June 23, 2012

Hollyhocks in Capitola, CA

These beautiful hollyhocks were growing outside a small strip center

in the tiny beach town of Capitola.
Summer’s bounty.

Their crepe-paper-thin petals were perfectly rendered

by the hand that created us.

I remember standing on a Colorado mountaintop years ago

surveying the beauty below with a friend who is an atheist.

“I don’t know how you think all this beauty

got here,” I said, “if not by a power

greater than ours. By plan. By the creator or Source.”

He shrugged.

But then, scientists usually want to be shown.

I think the world around us is proof enough.

It’s clear that we can never see an objective truth.
We judge everything around us from our own

frame of reference. That seems natural,

because how else would we? you might ask.

But I believe our frame of reference is limited.

That there is far more to –to life, existence,

the universe — the whole plan, really,

than we can see with our limited vision.

Just because we can’t do it now

doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

A look back in history proves that.

So why can’t we accept that there are things

beyond our understanding, concepts we can’t even fathom

in this life and the next?