Where do we find the meaning in life?

Sing a new song to the Lord!
    Sing his praises from the ends of the earth!
Sing, all you who sail the seas,
    all you who live in distant coastlands.
Isaiah 42:10

Amaya, Osa_Peninsula

"It is no use being too clever about life. Only so far as we find God in it, do we find any meaning in it.  Without Him, it is a tissue of fugitive and untrustworthy pleasures, conflicts, ambitions, desires, frustrations, frequent pain."  Evelyn Underhill

Amaya, Osa_Peninsula


God, the Lord, created the heavens and stretched them out.
    He created the earth and everything in it.
He gives breath to everyone,
    life to everyone who walks the earth.
Isaiah 42:5

In love, in awe, in worship

For Epiphany--the arrival of the Magi--the British writer, Evelyn Underhill (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Underhill)  wrote this simple yet profound prayer:

"Draw us, O Holy One, as you drew the Magi, to those places and experiences in which we have not known you before, and open our eyes to see you and respond to you in love, in awe, and in worship."

Drake_Bau_Costa_Rica, Amaya_Family_Cabins


Meg and I are just returned from 12 days in Costa Rica.  We took Michael and Sara for intensive birding and other activities on the southern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica close to Drake Bay and the Corcovado National Park, as well as the cloud forest of Monte Verde. The days were full and it was fun to be "off the grid" for awhile :)

Drake_Bau_Costa_Rica, Corcovado_National_Park