Recently I was on a plane and saw the Grand Canyon from above — a sight so new to me I didn’t realize what I was seeing. It simply looked like an astonishingly deep crevasse in the earth with a great number of veins squiggling out from its gaping mouth. 
Then I got to see it up close for the first time on foot. 
Not only was it vast 
and beautifully stark, 
but it showed off creation in a new way for me. 
A way that was difficult to put into words, 
unwieldy to photograph — 
I simply had to let the experience seep into me. 
Sometimes during prayer no words come. 
Spirit lets out a groan, sigh or even a little squeal of delight. 
The views were literally breath-taking, they took the breath from my lungs — drew it from my very being — and released it out into the wilderness. 
That was how I became a part of my surroundings, 
part of God’s glorious aesthetic sense — 
unified — 
with All.
Photos © Sondra Sula.
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