Some thoughts: Remember

09/08/2010 in Living in Beauty, Reflections & Discoveries, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Remember.

This is not the remembering of yesterdays lunch or your best friends new wife’s name. This is not remembering what 2 plus 2 equals.

This is about remembering that which has created all that surrounds us. It shows in a myriad of ways including the things that we take for granted. The small things as well as the large.

Many people will look heavenward to the skies to see our creator and find “him” in a cloud.

This is remembering the small things that go unnoticed by most and by some until they put themselves into a place or situation where they are “forced” to remember.

How many of us think about a stream on a daily basis?
Where it comes from or where it leads to?
What the water looks like?
Feels like?

Tastes like, or even if it is clean enough to drink anymore?

Or who created it for us?

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Curt Siters

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear

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Some thoughts: Remember