There is nothing that is not
spiritual for those who have
learned to see.
Richard Rohr of the Center for Action and Contemplation is one of my contemplative masters. I eagerly await his daily messages and I always find them so illuminating...like the quote above.
Every tiny detail in life is rich in the spiritual essence of Nature. It is in its DNA. It merely takes an eye that looks deeply into things...an eye trained to see. To stand transfixed by the fluffy snow that clings to a thin branch is to see beyond the mere beauty of the landscape and into this divine connection.
Rohr calls this The Great Chain of Being. Every link in the chain has a connection to the source of all being, however you wish to define that term. Nothing is without a spiritual relationship...the branch, the snow...all caught in the web of being of which we and all created things share a part.
This is why I, and anyone who cares to look, can find the divine fingerprint in the landscape. There is nothing that does not forge a link to that source. What a wonderful gift we are given as photographers. We can not only experience this great chain of being but record it as well. 
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