• Art and Prayer,  Praying with Trees,  Visio Divina

    Reflecting God’s light

    I was ambling along the Rail Trail this morning when I saw a tree with one of its multiple trunks brightly lit by sunlight. Not an unusual sight, but what caught my attention was that I could also see the sun behind the tree, where it couldn’t possibly be shining on the side of the trunk that I saw. And yet, a portion the tree’s trunk was brightly lit. The sun’s light was reflecting off another trunk closer to me and back onto the one I was seeing. As I sketched the tree, I meditated on how, as God’s people, we are to reflect God’s light in our lives and…