Recently, NPR’s Morning Edition has brought back their “This I Believe” series where listeners share personal essays on their beliefs. This morning I was treated to an elegant and very beautiful essay from Ruth Kamps, a retired school teacher from Wisconsin…
“I have lost most of my traditional heaven-and-hell beliefs, finding them used conveniently by good people. There is a bit of the divine in the trees and the creatures who reside there. A little wren attacks a large red-bellied woodpecker who is pecking too close to his nest. I am filled with admiration. The transition is complete…”
Read, or better yet, listen to Ruth Kamp’s I Believe essay, Living Life with ‘Grace and Elegant Treeness’.