Some people are enjoy with
the adventure including myself. From my young age I have been in the field of
adventure. I joined a group of mountain climbers since my high school, which
was not just a hobby but a spiritual journey that allows me to see God in the
created world. The experience that always awaited by the climbers is when it
comes to the peak. Where we can see the landscape below and welcome the sunrise
before us is the most amazing thing what I called a mystic experience of the
tremendous universe. Each one may have different feelings but to me that’s the
experience of adoration.
Spend time in and with Nature
I believe being in nature,
and in particular just listening, is one of the most important things we can do
in life. Spent my time immersed with the natural world, observing, listening,
and communicating are the most precious moment. You can’t look up the real
world on your phone, you need to experience it. There is no other way except
you experiencing it, it’s an emotional thing on all levels and it’s vital.
Human being becomes a different person if they cannot experience love and be
part of the natural world. Nature is not only give us tremendous comfort and
connect with it but helps us to heal and liberate us to the next level of our
life journey. From the self separateness to self participation and from the
partial self to the whole self and the self that is part of the whole.
Many people today are
suffering from fear and despair about others thing including the environment,
and its called eco-anxiety. Depression,
anxiety, grief, despair, stress. The environmental damage isn’t only counted in
lack of clean water and wildfire in the poor countries, but its likely eroding
mental health on the society, reports the American Psychological Association
(APA). They says the changing environment is the source of distress and already
affecting many people and it has potential to be psychologically destabilising,
causing a mental health, strain on relationships, as well as addiction,
aggression and violence. Even though we may be suffering, but being in nature
is what will help us find peace, healing and liberating.
Relationship with the living being
Experience hike, bike, climb
in the woods or mountain is an experience where humans and other creations are
one. We cannot separate from the ground where we step on, our lives depend on
it and in our bodies all elements are in it.
From the trees around us we breathe. We are no longer two separate
things or two subject realities but in our consciousness flow between human and
other creation are one.
Along the way relationship
between human and other creation remind me the incarnational living. The body
of the Christ that becomes our spiritual meal is made of other being the grain
from the earth. Reflecting more closeness, intimate and abiding between the
body of Christ and our bodies. All is one. Spiritual and physical food becomes
inseparable.
Life Lesson
Hike, bike, climb the
mountain or woods and spent time with the nature can be an experience of the
sacramentality and of communicating with the creator and creation. Everytime I
did the hike in the foreign country with the different bioregion, plants and
trees and other beings is always give me an amazing lesson. Knowing the kind of
plants grow in a specific area shows the significant of the soil. Where there
are wild leak overgrown in the land shows that the soil is rich in calcium. So
that the water content beneath it is very beneficial to the human body. From a piece
of land we learn lots of things. It isn't amazing? God has specific ways and
putting things in order according what its needs. Everything has a purpose in the
life circle. God doesn’t create junk. Every corner of the trail reflect the
spirit to awaken me. Their mystery filled me to overflowing and spoke to my
heart in ways I am still working to understand. I learned that the pain and
struggle give me a new perspective as I walk on the ground and the ground of my
being.
I discover the life journey with the natural world is a way to let go of
the mess and some mistakes inside me, to get in touch with my vulnerabilities
and fragility. Each journey help me to learn more about what is really formost
in life and the significant for life it self. Seeking for a new self
understanding from separate entity to intimately intertwine with other human
and the entire universe. What ever comes, the willingness to be
vurnerable and surrender to the signs of the Great Maker that speak to my heart when I am willing to listen and learn. 