“This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.” If we stop to honestly ponder the immensity of God’s beauty and his gracious gift of creation and do so with a sincere intention, a silent heart and a willing spirit we would come to know the great love and affection God has for us, his special creation. Ultimately, in our mediation of God’s graciousness, we will come to experience his Divine Kingdom in our hearts, in the beauty that surrounds us and in the daily lives we lead. It is a kingdom of love, a kingdom of great joy, a kingdom of peace, a kingdom of light, it is the Kingdom of God.  But this kingdom must be entered into with a deep respect and a great reverence for what is holy, what is heavenly and what is divine. We must encounter it in great want and in loving silence, in awe and wonder and with a complete and totally surrendered attention free of anxiety, free from all distractions, free of any noise. We must enter into God’s Kingdom with a holy desire and a pure intention of simply being with God and encountering his awesomeness so that God’s Kingdom may more fully enter into us so that we may more fully enter into the Kingdom of God. We must learn to pray as Jesus taught us and want to pray as the Saints have shown us. We need to carve out sometime every day to pray and be with God in order to contemplate the vastness and greatness of God in his creation with it’s universes and galaxies, with its .awesome skies and stars that are so beyond our reach, so beyond our grasp. We must long for prayer, desire it, long for it in order to penetrate the awesomeness of God’s works in the heavens and those on the earth with the endless mountain ranges, the unfathomable depths of the oceans and seas, with the host of angelic and celestial beings and with the whole of creation that is so beyond our comprehension, so beyond our understanding that our minds cannot fully understand it but we can experience it and appreciate it in prayer and with great joy. In prayer we can enter into the mysteries of God. We can enter into his sacred presence. We can enter into the heart of our Creator. We can enter the Kingdom of God.