Sounds Like A Good Idea To Me

"How might our perception of God be changed if we turned off the radio station for a few minutes and walked in a thunderstorm? What if we put down the self-help book and gazed at the ocean at the ocean for an hour? What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence? Obviously, the created order only reveals a piece of God's nature and character to us, but that piece is foundational. As the apostle Paul says, "For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made." It is recognizing God's eternality that liberates our minds from their consumer inclination to reduce him to a commodity."

- Skye Jethani, The Divine Commodity, p. 44