I was reading Cowman's daily email publication, an older one, about a woman in an unfamiliar land, inconsolable, sent to the local missionary, called by the natives, "Sky Pilot".
Sky Pilot talked so much of nature, natural things. These were the readily available apparent things, and he spoke of these familiar things to give the woman a reference point to God that she could access with her own facility.
He spoke of the leaves, and the breeze, and of course the sky, but the earth, as well, to access her "agrarian" or natural reference point with which she could use as a natural mental bridge, through the familiar trappings of the neighborhood, for which to reach out to God, and not only that, but further appreciate God's hand at work in the natural landscape around her.
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