Trinitarian Thoughts on Descending into the Grand Canyon

Abstract

“The Grand Canyon is … a cauldron of death, symbol of creation's bloody chalice. Its restless sides teem with life, propelled by an insatiable drive to endure, indeed, to prevail. Wind, river, clutching root-fingers of trees, lean varmints in crouched determination—all are sister-brothers in the surging restlessness. … [H]ere one can sense strangely that consciousness is not alien, but a breakthrough—within and for the whole. Ironically, while such emergence brings the alienating burden of knowing what nothing else in creation seems yet to know, it opens the religious threshold: greeting self-consciousness as the emergence of the whole.”