“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, June 8 1867 – June 6 1959
With the Wright anniversaries approaching I'm thinking more and more about some of his beautiful homes which were so a part of the town in which I grew up. I'm grateful to have the legacy of appreciation for such grace and beauty. Reading Nancy Horan's fresh novel, Loving Frank, about Wright and his affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney. She and two of her children died horribly in the fire which destroyed, Taliesin, Wright's studio, school, home in Spring Green Wisconsin, which he later rebuilt. It is pictured above. Its resurrection seems a fitting sign of Wright's devotion to the great mystery of his own motivation to create.
May our prayers this week draw us deeply into the great mysteries of nature. May we find there some enduring sense of the God who brought us into being. In so doing may we seek God’s promise for our living that we are a part of a part of a body whose joys and sorrows, happiness’s and griefs, livings and dyings are of a purpose which is far greater than we can ever comprehend. And may our life in that mystery motivate us towards living its grace and beauty, peace and hopefulness for our days. Amen.
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