Intimacy With Nature – Christine Valters Paintner 

“The contemplative path calls us into intimacy with nature. We cultivate our capacity to be fully present to the graces and invitations nature inspires in us. We do this to grow in our love and compassion for all creation, but also so we might come to a conversion of heart – out of this place of expanding love, we begin to ask ourselves how it might impact and shape our daily choices and actions.”
.— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD The Self-Study Online Retreat ~ Water, Wind, Earth and Fire: Praying with the Elements