"William Law remarks that people are merely 'amusing themselves' by asking for the patience which a famine or a persecution would call for, if in the meantime, the weather and every other inconvenience sets them grumbling. One must learn to walk before one can run. So here. We- or at least I- shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have 'tasted and seen'. Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of God-light' in the woods of our experience."
-from Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C.S. Lewis
I need to be reminded of and looking for those "patches of God-light" which are all around me. Rather, I need to remind myself of them. My eyes must be open to what God has placed in my life, so that I don't take those things for granted. I so often do that, looking straight ahead, not taking the time to stop, look up and all around me.What are the "patches of God-light" that surround me if I would just be observant, listen and breathe in the world in which I live?
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