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Life is precious and miraculous. It is invisible and yet omnipresent, a creative force that courses through each of us and all of nature. As advanced as science is becoming, it cannot explain how life sparks into being. Life just is.
The magnificent planet that is our home is a glorious example of the power and splendor of life with multitudes of diverse life forms, often working symbiotically to create health in the ecosystems they inhabit and shape. Scientists have estimated that there may be approximately 8.7 million different species on Earth and to date, only 1.2 million have been identified and described by humans. We share this planet with a profound profusion of life
Life as a spiritual principle and power goes far beyond physical bodies, certainly far beyond a human body. Unlike a body, the true faculty of life has no finite existence.
In Divine Audacity, Linda Martell Whitsett writes:
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"Life is of divine origin. Life is eternal and indestructible, in keeping with the first law of thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed. Although invisible and nonmaterial, evidence of life can be sensed. Life exists in potential and requires intentionality and direction. Life is not a creation of the body; the body cannot create or destroy life. Life gives rise to the body. Invisible life takes shape in visible forms. "
Spiritual life involves creative expression, growth, and extension of love. It is the divine presence expressing through and as us. This divine presence expresses through all beings, all creation.
"There is intelligence inherent in every form, animate or inanimate. It has been discovered that even rocks and all minerals have life... We should be speaking words of truth to everything, not only to mankind but to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.”
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Charles Fillmore, Christian Healing
The term “biomimicry” refers to viewing nature as a model, mentor, and measure, and asks how we as humans can, like other species, create conditions conducive to life. It is derived from ancient Greek words for “life” and “imitation” – life imitation. Nature delivers so many beautiful models for us to learn and live from. Consider the example of the cycle of seasons. 
The birth and new growth of spring, moves into the maturation and development of summer, to times of harvest in fall, then pulling in of sap and storing of energy during winter, starting all over again the following spring.  We can see the same cycles play out in our own lives, relationships, and even projects we may be working on.  
At this time on our planet, we know that humanity’s collective activities are harming nature.
We also know that the impetus of life is to extend itself, to create more life, and this impetus is at the heart of all of nature, of which humanity is part. We affirm life in its vast diversity and glory expanding and extending, a magnificent display of divine generative power.
We affirm a harmonizing of humanity with all of nature in the ongoing, ever-flowing unfoldment and extension of life. The life force pulses through us and all of Creation. Employing the spiritual power of life is about remembering ourselves, and all beings, as one with the magnificent source of all creation, Divine Mind.
Charles Filmore wrote in Keep a True Lent, “The first step in the realization of life is always to know that God is life, abundant, omnipresent, eternal, and this second step is to make positive connection with God life by declaring oneness with it.”
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Charles Fillmore, Keep a True Lent
As we focus on and expand our sense of wholeness, vitality, and connectedness to all creation, we empower ourselves and our world to thrive.