Someone built a little "altar" at the edge of Dry Creek in an area I often go for my afternoon walk with our dog Leo.  

It is just one small way of honoring a place, of showing a kind of reverent feeling for nature.
When we are out here in Sedona, in such incredible beauty, it is easy to feel reverence and awe
for the beauty and mystery and majesty of creation.
But in everyday life, especially in urban settings, it is all too easy to see this great gift of God as simply a backdrop to our life, and to treat nature as an object, failing to realize how interwoven we are with all things in creation around us.  What happens to it will happen to us.
Our physical welfare, and yes, the welfare of our souls, depends upon out attitude towards and treatment of the places we live.  
    How many ways can you, and I, think of to care deeply for and treasure the place where we live, and beyond?