Tuesday, January 4, 2022

January 4, 2022



FIND  THEM  EVERYWHERE

 

 You find them everywhere.
 
It is natural for us humans to build places of prayer.
 
Temples, mosques, churches, chapels dot the globe.
 
These “upper rooms” get us in touch with God in the upper room of our mind as well as in our inner center: our heart.
 
Holy Places help us to be holy – to be whole.
 
Holy Places help us to see the holiness of all places.
 
Holy Places help us to enter into heaven, into eternity, to be one with God – to be one with all people who have gone before us and those who are going to come after us.
 
Holy Places are the eye of the needle. We can’t fit in without letting go of our burdens – those inner burdens that bloat us, that fill us, that sap our energy.
 
Holy Places are the great equalizers.   We are all one when we are all in the same room together.
 
Chartres, Sancta Sophia, the Wailing Wall, Mecca, Sagrada Familia, the local church, the hospital chapel, the secret garden, are all there to help us get and be centered.
 
When Moses had his great revelation of god, he heard the sacred words, “Take off your shoes.  You are standing on Holy Ground.
 
Holy Places are Holy Ground – places where God Speaks to us, places where we can question God, places where God reveals who God is slowly, “I Am Who Am.”
 
Holy Places are Holy Ground – places where God missions us - where God sends us to others – where God tells us about a shut-in down the road from us or a teenager whom we tend to neglect.
 
Holy Places are places we only got to - but places we come from – filled with God.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2022


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