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Daily Question, February 1

In the natural world, when/where do I feel humbled?

  • Dusty Su

    Unquestionably, the ocean. It’s my temple.

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    I feel humbled when I see people who are less fortunate than me in many areas

  • reality

    Always and everywhere; nature’s miracles continually evolving and unfolding ? reality

  • Malag

    Hiking up a mountain, gazing across the hills, such a small thing in the immensity of nature. Hazing up on a crisp dark night at all the beauty of a night sky.

  • Ciara

    When the rain comes pouring down, bringing not only life to the plants and animals around us, but many times bringing destruction to the earth. When I think of this, I feel humbled.

  • Cheryl Read

    As I gaze out my window at the many faces in the ocean….one day calm as a lake and another like today so turbulent that it picks up a log as big as a house and tosses it like a toothpick….I am humbled.
    As I look at the magnificent 300 year old cedar trees…knowing that they came long before me and will be here long after…I am humbled.

  • Linda

    Next to those huge trees in the Redwood Forest. Amazing!

  • Madeline

    When I travel, and I notice how different my ways of living are from other people’s lives. It’s a good reminder to remain open minded for other people, while also appreciating other people’s cultures and my own culture as well.

  • Debra
    In the bed of a Giant Redwood Forrest. In the heart of Rocky Mountain National Park hiking above the timberline. Immersed in the strong current of the St. Lawrence River and feeling its awesome force. In the Pacific, body surfing and being pounded against the ocean floor and exploding up to the surface. Slalom skiing at full throttle. Canoeing ? in the boundary waters, in absolute silence, in the early morning light and coming across a huge male moose as surprised to see us as we were to see h...

    In the bed of a Giant Redwood Forrest. In the heart of Rocky Mountain National Park hiking above the timberline. Immersed in the strong current of the St. Lawrence River and feeling its awesome force. In the Pacific, body surfing and being pounded against the ocean floor and exploding up to the surface. Slalom skiing at full throttle. Canoeing ? in the boundary waters, in absolute silence, in the early morning light and coming across a huge male moose as surprised to see us as we were to see him. Loving the moments of nature, thankfully too numerous to enunciate here, of my blessed life. All humbling. All enlightening.

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  • jessicamomberg

    When I visited Yosemite and Muir woods, I was in awe of the beauty and majesty of my surroundings. I cannot believe places like that exist in this world. The diversity of the trees, waterfalls and mist were incredible to behold and be immersed in.

  • Mica

    Awe and love speak to me more than ‘humble’. I loved the Eastern woods where I grew up [in western PA] but lived a block from the Pacific Ocean for 27 yrs. Eventually I trained myself to love the Pacific Ocean, walking along the beach at night, seeing the occasional shooting star, and the lame sea bird walking along.

    • Palm

      Mica, I am smiling and curious about why you had to “train” yourself to love the Pacific Ocean 🙂

      • Mica

        Palm – My heart was with the Eastern woods where I grew up and where I visited in summers at Yogaville. I’m not a water person. Silly, isn’t it?!

        • Palm

          Not silly Mica, just self knowledge… thanks, you made me aware that I am also more of a walking than a swimming person ?

  • Eva

    Mere 1 cm layer of soil can take a few hundred to a thousand years to form.

    A single handful of healthy soil can contain in excess of 500 species of fungi. There are 10 000 species and a staggering 100 billion individual specimens of bacteria. A handful of soil contains more living organism than the entire population of our planet.

    Relationship between breast milk, microbiota/microbiome and the infant’s gut and later health.

    How we are all interconnected.

  • Elaine

    Witnessing the unstoppable, insistent regeneration after the devastation of a forest fire.

  • wherever I observe change, for example how every leave without resistance and seemingly full of devotion lets go in autumn to return to the earth where once it grew from and from where it once will return in new form, then I feel totally humbled

  • Carla

    Driving along a road filled with trees covered in snow & hoar frost on smaller branches -awesome.

  • Michele

    The beauty of Hills Creek State Park, the drive to Key West, Bok Tower, pretty much anyplace in nature:) I appreciate bringing the ‘outdoors’ inside – my daughter and I recently stayed at the Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee Fl and the indoor atriums were absolutely breathtaking.
    I’m noticing there are answers from a year ago posted?

  • Samuel
    Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. A beautiful valley cove surrounded by mountains and much nature untouched. On the other hand, there still remain within the Cove the remnants of hundreds of years of previous pioneer residents that called this lovely place "home" until the early 20th Century when the Park was created from their confiscated homesteads. For me, the juxtaposition of the manifestations of nature, individual humans, and collective government actions results in a u...

    Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. A beautiful valley cove surrounded by mountains and much nature untouched. On the other hand, there still remain within the Cove the remnants of hundreds of years of previous pioneer residents that called this lovely place “home” until the early 20th Century when the Park was created from their confiscated homesteads. For me, the juxtaposition of the manifestations of nature, individual humans, and collective government actions results in a unique and precious environment that is indeed humbling…
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  • Katrina

    Fortunately I look for this regularly. But the three times I was simply blown away were 1) standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon; 2) watching a glacier calving in Alaska, which now makes me sad that it was a part of the global warming trend; and 3) seeing Old Faithful blow. All three of those experiences left me feeling humbled and grateful to be a part of something so God-inspired. God was a part of that, and God is a part of me. How did I get to be a part of something so amazing?

  • Antoinette

    I’m humbled now by being so sick with migraines for 3 days. It’s amazing how we take being healthy for granted. Pain is very humbling and I am trying my best to know it will pass.

    • Michele

      Sending you healing energy and that your migraines dissipate.

    • Katrina

      If you have had migraines for long, you know a three day migraine will, indeed pass. But it is the most terrible three days of my life. Fortunately I finally found a great neurologist who suggested an infusion treatment which worked for me. I still have migraines, and the fact that I am now 66 means they are fading as my brain is aging. But it is, truly, as you say, humbling. God bless you and heal you in this journey.

  • Ed

    Waking up to the silent world after a heavy snow.
    (There has been no snow this winter….)

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