Fire and Ice-Tahoma
Nature presents a paradox in Mount Rainier. A volcanic mountain, brimming with lava, patiently waiting to erupt. But around it, encasing it, is a cold, white glacier. It’s the combination of fire and ice. There are a lot of paradoxes in nature, and maybe this is part of the “sublime” aspect that Professor Redick has mentioned in class. Paradoxes are nature giving us something that our mind can’t quite wrap around. Light is both a particle and a wave. There are stars that are weighed in tons but fit in a teaspoon. Scientists have found subatomic particles, smaller than we can imagine, that appear to have the ability to be in two places at once. These sorts of things leave us dumbfounded, like what many experience when looking at a mountain. Martin Buber said quite poetically that “Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning-we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions” I think the wonder in creation is just one of the ways that it “burns itself into us” leaving us marked by a necessary amount of mystery in order to live as children of God.
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