Meditation Moment

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It's the Journey

I am in the process of starting a new church. Deeply in the process. In fact, we have been celebrating worship as a community of faith since June of last year. The name chosen for the experience, quite appropriately, is Journey Church. (Check out and like our Facebook page).

This is the second new church I have planted and it is indeed a journey. One might even say it is a journey of epic proportions. I am encountering so many amazing people along the way; deeply spiritual individuals of every shape and hue who have chosen not to be burdened by a religious institution's interpretation of how to practice faith. Instead, there is this amazing spectrum of discussion and celebration occurring as we explore a multi-faceted and fully inclusive experience of The Sacred.

A Guided Meditation

Thin Places

A number of years ago I went along on one of my wife’s work trips seeking a respite from the day to day demands of my shamanistic vocation. While she was collecting stories about Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado I amused myself by sitting on the edge of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.

Sitting alone, listening for a nudge of the holy in the cavernous silence exuded by the steep and craggy walls, I marveled at the cathedral before me: how unlike the houses of worship created by human hands.

With an eye to right angles, smooth interiors, and committee chosen stain glass it feels too often that we insulate ourselves from The Sacred Experience God desires us to have.

In the tradition of the Celtic Christian community there is the notion of “thin places.” It is a reference to those places and times where heaven touches earth and are known as the sacred moments of life.

While dangling on the edge I felt as if I were pressing against the thinnest of membranes that separated me from the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Holiest of Holies.

 It felt good.