'James Cornell's world is "charged with the grandeur of God", in Hopkins' words ..... each person is a tessera in a timeless mosaic, a murmur in a songline' (Dark Diamond Dancing: a mosaic of encounter. London, Athena Press: 2004).  In this text, he devotes pages 144-151 to the consideration of 'The Process of Personalising Cosmic Love'.

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He writes elsewhere:

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Encounter with nature-archetypes wakes qualities within us that make us strong and balanced individuals, with the equipment we need to face the challenges of life.  For this reason, besides watching our cholesterol and sugar levels, we city dwellers need to watch our relationship to country.

There are obvious dangers.  Where do we encounter the Family of Being? Where does it get the chance to minister to us?

Does encounter survive the switch to the virtual world?  Is passivity affecting more than just my waistline?  Does the axiom 'spend time with your family' have a wider and equally critical meaning for us urbanites of the twenty-first century?' (2004:136)

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'The Aboriginal people ... mainline the land.' (ibid, 137)

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'The comprehensive beauty of the environing cosmos and the warmth and communion of personal love are innate and equal objects of human passion.  The human heart instinctively seeks to integrate them.

I am currently privileged  to live in one of the last great wilderness areas of the world, the semi-desert region of inland Australia.  The beauty of nature is awesome here and especially so as it is so vast and isolated.  It is very much like Otto's description of God: tremendum et fascinans (terrible but fascinating).

It is easy to feel irrelevant to this fiercely beautiful world of relentless, inner dictated change.' (ibid, 144-5)

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