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Signs and Symbols – Br. Curtis Almquist
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The Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writes that:
Earth is crammed with heaven
And every common bush afire with God…1
Ms. Browning is here using sacramental language to describe the experience of life. A sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace. To understand life sacramentally is to apprehend the whole of creation as a window to God, whether it be a simple bush — the burning bush — or some other element of life, or another human being, created in the very image of God. Every thing in life has the potential of being revelatory. Read More