This impromptu dumpster Sunday School had become a holy space, a place of acceptance, learning, love, and light — the very epitome of what I had expressed hope for in my testimony.
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In the sacred space between life and death, where the heavenly visions of
the waking and sleeping unite, the early morning sun is insufficient to light my way.
We must go home; but we do not want to. Our dirty hands are clean. Our vulgar hearts are pure. We believe we are home already.
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What does it take to make a place holy? As a scholar of European religious history and architecture, I have stood in many kinds of places that people of various faiths have designated as sacred and wondered exactly what it is that makes them different.
The holy of holies does exist, although
I have never heard it discussed on a Sunday.
But what makes Lake Michigan sacred isn’t just the water or the lighthouses or the memories. I found my name, myself, on its shores.
In that moment,
before he looked down,
before Thou art the Christ,
before the cock crowed,
my
body is the wilderness I
wander in, searching for
my daily sustenance from
on high.
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