Beauty surrounds us – and in noticing, we enter a sacred act of what I call prayer – connecting what we hold within to all of that which is beyond. We pray to pebbles, to dandelions, to the irises simply by pausing in appreciation, by offering an intentional moment of gratitude, by allowing a space for the love and the wonder and the awe of nature to saturate us. No matter who you are, no matter how lonely you may be – there is a beauty and an essence calling you back over and over again – announcing that you have a place in all that is, all that was, and all that ever will be.