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Summer Devotion

Writer's picture: Justin H. BriggsJustin H. Briggs

The summer months bring me as close to god as any time of the year. The heat, the humidity, the toil of simply walking up the block. Nothing feels so straining as a summer day, and therein you may find god. God requires devotion, effort, dedication.


And for anything to get accomplished in the summer heat, you need all three. Perhaps it’s mowing the lawn. Maybe it’s simply building a campfire. Perhaps, further, you are graced with a creative aptitude which requires you to pour concrete or dig ditches. These labors are not unseen in the summer sun.


When we have pushed ourselves to our limits, when our mental distractions have been wrung from us as the sweat from our clothes, therein god may speak to us. Through devotion to achievement, we push from us our doubt. Through effort at a cause, we may disband the distractions from others. Through dedication to craft, we silence all potential doubt.


We must run ourselves full bore down the rungs of time in the heat and strife, above or below or around every obstacle, perhaps even breaking down these walls between ourselves and our goals. In this pursuit we are closer to existence. To the essence. It is in the doing, in the turmoil, that god finds us.


Prayer? What is sewing a garden but prayer for a harvest? What is maintaining a lawn but posturing on our belief that there will be another sunrise? What is camaraderie around a bonfire but a salutation to the night abound that we may greet the end of another day in harmony.


Our prayers are all about; in the salt on our brow, in the requests for rain, in the belief of a harvest yet again. Our devotion is in our work. We do the work of god, humbly believing in a creator aware. Our actions call upon that great creator and creation, that lord of existence, that beckoner of life itself. In the living is where we belong.




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