What is it that shines through wood and smites the heart? The beauty inside wood stays obscured until human activity releases it. This presentation reflects David’s fall into wonder with wood’s beauty. Not unlike with human life, it takes a wound to reveal the inner beauty of wood. A craftsman listens to the sawn tree as it sounds its message: “Stay awhile… you too have come into the world to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine” (Mary Oliver). To open wood is to discover the Beauty that feeds the soul and takes us back to the home inside ourselves.