The Symphony of God

3rd February 2026

As the new year has begun to unfold, I trust you are journeying well in your inner self. On my morning walks in our neighbourhood, I have been pondering on a thought from last year, that all creation is a song, a symphony of praise to God. This has led me to think about God as a symphony as well. The Trinity, in many ways, is an amazing symphony of relationships. In creation as well, God is felt, heard, and encountered in a complex and infinite variety of ways. There is a fleeting recognition of intimacy and insight when we see through the created world to meet the gaze of God. Teresa of Avila puts it this way in in Daniel Ladinky’s Love Poems from God,


                                           Eternally amazed is the soul before God,
                                                      watching God expand.


                                    Witnessing God reveal God’s self to God’s self –
                                                      that divine intimacy
                                                                I know.
                                                                                    (adapted from “The Divine Intimacy”)


Creation, in this sense, not only praises God, but is a self-manifestation of God. All of Creation, seen and unseen, witnessed and unwitnessed, joins together in this intimate, divine symphony of God revealing God’s self to God’s self. When we stop to notice, we are drawn into this intimacy of divine expression as witnesses of the joy of God’s creative self-expression and self-manifestation. Can you hear the music? May you this week, in your neighbourhood, be aware of the joyous symphony of God around you.


Brian Holliday  
Anam Cara for the Guiding Committee  
                                                                                                      Photo by Tiểu Bảo Trương: Pexels