This weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend time at the beautiful Chapman Lake Retreat Center (If you’ve never been, I highly recommend). As I sat on the dock of the Lake, which is my favorite place to think there, I took in the beauty which is God’s creation. Sometimes it is hard for us, especially with crazy Scranton weather, to find or see the beauty of God’s creation; to find the creator in his creation. That is the challenge I’m presenting to you. Take some time today or tomorrow to look for God in nature. See Him not only in the sunny days, but in the storm, the clouds, the trees, the breeze, the gentle flurries, the light rain, or the falling leaves. Life isn’t about finding God in the easy times of life, or our sunny days, but rather, it’s about finding Him and feeling His presence when the skies get gray and stormy.
So tomorrow or today, no matter how gray the cloudy sky is, or how hard the rain may come down, try to find God in it. Just the same, look at the difficult times in your life. Look at the times when your skies were stormy. Do you see God there? If not, who helped you through those times? Do you see God in them? He is there during our darkest days and stormiest skies. Seek Him. Find Him. “That they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward Him and find Him. Yet He is actually not far from each one of us…” (Acts 17:27). Pax amicis in Christos.
-Eric C. Class of ‘16
EDITOR'S NOTE: A couple of dozen students spent parade weekend at the lake. A much saner and safer alternative to the insanity on saturday of parade weekend in Scranton.
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