I know I've mentioned a time or two on this blog how wonderful it is to have the experience of the "sacred made real" - which most often happens to me when I am doing something I routinely do - like going to Mass, for instance - and something unexpected happens (like the Pentecost Vigil liturgy a few weeks ago). That unexpected something shakes me back out of the "routine" activity I'm involved in, and reminds me again of the higher realities of God. It's easy to forget those profound realities, particularly those we experience in the Mass (can you say, "transubstantiation"?), because it's far too easy to become complacent and just kind of go through the motions.
I was thinking about this tonight, looking up at the cobalt blue sky of early night as I was driving home, and was struck by the thought that, in looking at that sky, I was experiencing the sacred made real in a different way - by God's hand, in his creation. The sheer enormity - and incredible detail - of the universe, from the stars and planets, all the way down to the tiniest organisms - are a reflection of God's hand, and another, different reminder of the sacred made real.
+Peace and good!
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