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dif cult to nd any meaning in the world. But look into your heart, and you will see how it beats with the rhythm of faith from your childhood. Indeed, all of nature acts on the basis of such faith.
The simple faith that unfolds in the heart of a truly religious or spiritual person is beautifully expressed in the words of Jesus:
Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are? Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? Notice how the lilies in the eld grow. They don’t wear themselves out with work, and they don’t spin cloth. But I say to you that even Solomon in all his splendor wasn’t dressed like one of these. If God dresses grass in the eld so beautifully, even though it’s alive today and tomorrow it’s thrown into the furnace, won’t God do much more for you, you people of weak faith?
(CEB Matthew 6:26-30)
Without any egoistic effort, without the help of computers or modern technology, out of the crude earth the lilies have fabricated such wonderful