Reflections | Dr. Leighton Ford (Mentoring)
Reflecting On The Eclipse (Leighton Ford)
August 24, 2017
This week almost the entire nation stopped to pay attention to the total eclipse of the sun.
What an amazing spectacle as the power and beauty moved swiftly across the sky and was gone in a few seconds
Why, I wonder, do we not pause to take in the everyday miracles that surround us all the time?
As the poet Denise Levertov wrote, days pass when we forget the quiet mystery …
that there is anything, anything at all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything.
rather than void; and that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
hour by hour sustain it.
What if we took a few moments every day to wonder at this?
We might truly live an attentive life.
Leighton Ford
Photo Credit: NASA
