大象传媒

Good morning.聽 This past summer my wife and I went on a Safari in South Africa.聽 We found ourselves in a jeep bumping along dirt tracks in the hope of spotting one of the 鈥楤ig Five鈥� 鈥� but contrary to my unrealistic expectations, animals were not waiting behind every bend. We drove for over an hour without spotting anything.聽 Having seen enough nondescript brush and dirt track I began to lose interest. Suddenly, the jeep jolted to an abrupt halt, and there right in front of us was a magnificent black rhino.
Had we just been lucky? Not quite. Our guide had been tracking this rhino for the past hour. Where all I could see was brush, he saw signs everywhere. Dung, tracks, trampled leaves 鈥� none of which registered on me 鈥� yet once he pointed them out they were apparent 鈥� and under his patient direction, I too began to look for and detect these signs.
The ability to see what is not readily apparent on the surface is not restricted to game reserve guides but it is something that is shared by spiritually attuned people of faith.
Dr Melila Hellner-Eshed, a professor of Jewish mysticism, writes that mystics are able to 鈥渓isten to the rustling of divinity within reality.鈥�
Material reductionists insist that there is nothing underlying reality 鈥� but mystics of all faiths know otherwise. They detect patterns of divine presence everywhere leaving them with a very different perception of reality.

Most of us do not have the aptitude and temperament of a mystic but we all have the capacity to look a little harder at our world in the hope of seeing something deeper.
Dear God may it be your will that we come to glimpse traces of your presence in our lives.