Theologian Sallie McFague writes in The Body of God: "The universe as God's body (sun, moon, trees, rivers, animals and people) is a rich, suggestive way to radicalize the glory, the awesomeness, the beyond-all-imagining power and mystery of God in a way that at the same time radicalizes the nearness, the availability, the physicality of divine immanence." Create a summertime ritual in which you experience the Earth as God's body. Talk or journal about how this perspective affects your feelings, your body, and your attitudes toward nature.

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat in Summertime and Living Takes Practice