Salt of the Earth People
You know, it's no accident that Jesus said we should observe the natural world in order to make sense of the spiritual: that the ant can teach us about industriousness or that the flowers of the field could show us how to depend on our Maker. Ask any worker of the land, and they'll often say that they've learned more about themselves and the Divine than most because they are closer to the stuff that makes Him real. Opening our eyes to the things He has built into our world to remind us of His existence opens us up to deeper mysteries of the heart and how God works best... in the unseen and the simple. That's why it's no surprise that a Portuguese salt farmer could suddenly make sense to me of a spiritual truth I've tried to understand all my life. See, this man is in his eighties and is sitting under the baking sun, talking about how his craft is a dying art - that an industry in his country that used to make its people rich has now all but dwindled away in fa...
