The transparency of nature to God became something of an article of faith
in the English-speaking world after the romantic poets like Wordsworth and
Coleridge. Nature, they felt, is as good a language for spirituality as
sacred scripture. This is precisely the contribution that artistic
pursuits make to our human growth and development as inspirited flesh:
poetry and art and music seize upon the human experience in ways that
reveal new possibilities of intimacy with the Divine. In the way they
reach out and grab us by the heart at unexpected times, they reaffirm that
the Holy will meet us when it chooses, in 'pied beauty.' -- Rev.
Thomas Ryan
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