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Written by Kathy Platt
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 16:12 |
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Barbara Brown Taylor wrote a book entitled An Altar in the World. As I prepare for the spiritual retreat that we will be doing at Kananaskis in 2 weeks (ye Gods!!), one of the sentences in her book leapt off the page at me: When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, "Here, I guess, since this is where I am." (p. 56). For the last couple of months I have been walking the neighbourhood regularly, sometimes with my dog, sometimes by myself. I remember being asked by someone a short time ago what my spiritual practice is. My mind went blank, and then I said, I guess it is walking. That is most often where my best thinking happens - I sort out what I want to say on Sunday, I sort out conversations I want to have with my children, I sort out how I want to spend my day. However, I think an even greater challenge for me is to actually look at my feet and fully experience the ground upon which they are walking. That is part of what I am looking forward to on the journey up the mountain paths this summer - an opportunity to slow down to smell the mountain air and see the beauty in the rocks and in the flowers. Such a journey is rather inward - fine-tuning my senses to truly be aware of what is around me and how it speaks of all that is holy. And the reason I so want to do this hike with a community of fellow believers, is that I think our conversation will lead us to a whole new way of seeing. When I hear what another person holds as sacred - what that person sees as holy - I believe it will help me to further articulate what I hold as sacred and what I see as holy. And won't it be fun when we come back and share all of that with the rest of this community? It is a journey I am sure you will be hearing much about in the next season of the church!
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