Resources for Your Spiritual Journey

Faithnet.org has a whole collection of resources to help you along the way in your spiritual journey. Check out our library of personal devotions and links to other resources.

Furthermore, you can have a personal pastoral conversation with Trevor in a number of ways: in his Tuesday evening chats on Paltalk, by meeting him in our chat foyer, or via email.

Worshiping the Creator

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"Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will son for joy" (Psalm 96:11-12)

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A Spiritual Pilgrimage in the Grand Canyon: http://eo.yifan.net/users/l/msibley/grand.html

Let Nature Prompt Your Prayers
Mark Sibley Jones

As Richard Foster writes in Celebration of Discipline, "We now come to the least recognized but perhaps the most important field of study: the observation of reality in things, events, and actions. The easiest place to begin is with nature. It is not difficult to see that the created order has many things to teach us."

The touchstone of spiritual experience, for me, is awe. When I view a sky of stars, or the vastness of a canyon or mountain range, my spirit wells up with awe at the transcendence depicted before me. Glancing over the geological facts on display at a ranger's station only enhances my experience by informing me of the forces at work in the earth throughout the expanse of time.

Even the scrub oak trees in my south Texas backyard can occasion a worshipful moment as they remind me of the subtleness of nature's strength and complexities. And the thunderstorms that meander through this climate can evoke a fearful sense of nature's power . . . and the limits of my own.

My journey on this planet is only as a breath, or lightening flash in the scheme of nature's relentless history. Consequently, my prayers take on a more humble tone--perhaps a more honest quality--when prompted by nature.