Megan Howard's Making Nature Sacred 2

Megan Howard’s Blog #2 of Making Nature Sacred
Religio is defined as a connective or ligature to the divine origins of life, as embodied by the minister’s planting. Such as when Nathaniel Hawthorne described an orchard on pg 105 as “loving each tree as if it had been his own child” a minister feels a personal spiritual connection to his planting. This is also an expression of agape and believes that nature has incarnations of divine grace in its plantings. This deeply spiritual connection helps promote a greater spiritual respect towards natures and the food that we as a people reap from Mother Earth.
Religio is this connection and helps us to understand nature as a sacred place even more. By viewing an orchard as having a relation to mankind he opens himself up spiritually to the religious renewal nature has to offer. Religio is a key aspect of this ULLC course.