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Daily Reading for 11 January 2006
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A shout of joy
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As we climbed towards the summit, enjoying the snow canopy and the blue sky and the sunlight reflecting on the ice-caked grasses, he was descending at speed and he passed us by in a second. But not without a comment: “Great day, isn’t it?” Then he was gone, even as the “yeah!” emerged from our lips. I can remember only that he was a middle-aged man, like ourselves in love with hill walking.
What went on during that brief moment? Was it pure formality, somebody feeling obliged to talk in the sight of another? Was it a shout of joy to celebrate the beauty of nature? Or was it in some deep sense a hymn of praise to the God of creation? Maybe it was all of these, mixed together like the wheat and the weeds. Whatever was behind the utterance, we tired walkers found it truly uplifting and very welcome.
CCC 2639: “Praise is the form of prayer which recognizes most immediately that God is God. It lauds God for his own sake and gives him glory, quite beyond what he does, but simply because He Is”.
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