Inscape: No two are identical.

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead – Romans 1:20

Inscape is a term used to describe the distinctive design that constitutes individual identity.

It is as if there is something valuable inside each individual, woven into every thing and everyone, something that is only found in that one thing or that one someone. Each tree has it. Rocks and people do too, each their own. Each of the tiniest molecules has it and the farthest radio wave bursts from deepest space, whether or not a pattern can be found, has it. It points to our uniqueness, and the uniqueness of our Creator.

Gerard Hopkins, who invented the word inscape, wrote a poem about his heartbreak at watching a tree being cut down and dismembered. He was heartbroken because when he beheld it’s inscape, when he looked at this tree, he could sense Christ and the hand of the Creator, and he ‘would rather die’ than see such beauty destroyed.

When have you looked at someone or something and seen God?