Is there a connection between spirituality and nature?

I wanted to share this piece which illuminates the intimate connection between humanity and nature.



SPRING



The slow dance gives birth, reflecting nature’s metamorphosis;

The eternal flow designating this timeless moment as her own.

Arise, oh Prince, reach out and embrace your beloved,

And walk together, hand in hand, amidst the celebration.

Tomorrow is forever today - look towards the horizon and see

The rainbow colours, translucent, illuminating life’s response.

The temporal rain washes anew; naked together the couple stand,

Warmed by the reflected sun and filled with the hope of Summer.



SUMMER



The Princess arises and spreads her arms in eternal joy,

For this is her time of expansion beyond the walls of death.

Now! she calls; now! For this is the time of my conception,

From which all creation and knowing grows in natures womb.

The bed becomes the meadow filled with wild flowers,

Together they consummate the longing of ages, and from here

They touch the unity once reflected only dimly in Fall’s promise,

And the long Winter becomes now only a distant memory.



FALL



Together, the couple stand under the bough of the ageing oak,

Seeing the shading colours as new promise of life and beauty.

The changing Seasons can no longer bring despair of descent.

A new song reverberates - sweeping away the falling leaves,

Revealing a harmonious path through the once darkened woods.

With one voice they shout out the luminescence of their love;

The dragon hears this echo and retreats to eternal hibernation,

And nature’s unity triumphs over this temporal and fearful world.



WINTER



The Princess lays her head upon her Prince’s chest, unafraid

By the setting sun, and the bareness of the Kingdom outside

The separation no longer beats as growing fear within her heart,

Nor does she feel the pervading pinch of pain of seasons past.

For now she lives in a world beyond nature’s icicle taunts,

And dampness no longer gnaws at the colours of her spirit.

She lies forever protected and secure in the arms of love,

And life’s circle heralds with joy the rebirth of her own Spring.

Is there a connection between spirituality and nature?
Very beautiful piece. It made my morning, and I thank you for that. I like spring. Jen
Reply:Absolutely, We are connected to the earth ashes to ashes

dust to dust, The circle of the seasons are a metaphor to

human life Etc. Three songs come to mind, "Sunrise Sunset"

"September Song" "Will the circle Be Unbroken" There is

much poetry written of the connection, and I do believe we all feel the connection, I certainly do. Blessings
Reply:Yes unlike religion there is a connection between spirituality and nature.



Love and blessings Don
Reply:GOD and nature are one in the same.

There is nothing that is not god, no place where GOD is not.

All That IS, IS.

How can something that is created not be part of the Creator?



Wonderful writing, thank you for sharing,

Manyfeather
Reply:There is no connection between "spirituality" and nature.



TRUE spirituality has to do with listening to what God has SAID (yes, He HAS said something to us) and choosing to take Him at His Word. That is biblical FAITH, and all else is nothing but " vain superstition."



"they became foolish by worshipping the creation rather than the CREATOR."



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Reply:Without nature there wouldn't be spirituality. Without life there wouldn't be nurturing, and that is spirituality. Without mind there couldn't exist a knowing/God connection, and that is spirituality and possible spirituality expanded logarithmically.
Reply:For many people the word pantheism might best describes the category we humans seem to have a ‘natural’ desire or perhaps even need to categorize. The one definition I am referring to is, “A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena.” This is the ‘God’ Spinoza was referring to and the ‘God’ in which Einstein claimed to believe in. This is not a personal God such as described in any of the Abrahamic religions for example. This is not a God who listens to and answers prayers, or concerns ‘itself’ in any way with the affairs of humans or any other form of life. This is just another word for nature and the universe with all of the things contained within which we as people become so attached to and yet so detached from. Spirituality for me is when I am able to connect with this magnificent and unexplainable energy and become aware of my mortality and become one with this experience. Those experiences are all too rare for me and others who spend most of their lives just trying to survive from day to day and help and protect our friends and loved ones. It goes by fast. The spiritual moments for me are too few and far between to make the struggle honestly worth the effort, but I can’t give up. I refuse to give up. And, I hope to find the time someday to pursue those spiritual experiences that are so awesome. You can experience a deep spirituality without believing in the tenets of any man made religion or personal God and for me it is at those rare moments when I can meditate to the point of actually feeling a ‘oneness with nature’ which coincides with a hyperawareness of being alive and in the moment.
Reply:How can there not be a connection??? God created nature. He created everything. If we are not in tune with the physical home he gave us, which we are NOT, things go awry. Look around you! We're destroying the earth GOD gave us. The idea that God does not want us to "worship" it is saying that only God is to be "worshipped". But, we must care for nature and love it for the gift it is from God!
Reply:Many years ago, long before any history books, or just books in general, people all over the world worshiped nature. Looked to nature to guide them and found their spiritual connection through nature. Nature was the provider, the teacher and counsel.

Humanity as a whole has been steered away from that thinking and connection.

I have experienced spiritual moments with nature and have make requests from nature and they have been granted.

I am a Pantheist so I find what you posted was very nice. Was it something you found or something you wrote?
Reply:Very wonderful piece, for me when I look over the land or when the sun hits the mountains just right, leaves twirling on a tree from a slight summer breeze, and many more examples,

i feel our creators presence in everything he has created,and when we give thanks to our creator it is for the things that has been created for us and I think the piece that you have shared with us reflects the connection,Thank you.