Holy
Places
“If
where you are isn't good enough, then love and healing and God will
remain forever out of reach.”
Deepak
Chopra (The Book of Secrets, p. 12)
I have always wanted to
see Stonehenge. One of my favorite sites in Central America is the
Mayan ruins at Tikal. I will never forget the silent presence spread across the battlefield at Appomattox Court House. I have
friends who have made pilgrimages to the grotto of Mary Magdalene in
the south of France, to the ashram of the Sai Baba in India to gather
holy ash; who have been to drink the healing water at Lourdes, and to
stand in the vision fields of Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. I have even
known a handful of folks who attempted to scale Mt. Everest, and
others who walked on the plains of Kilimanjaro. As a child, I sat for
hours with the World Book Encyclopedia on my lap, amazed by the
grainy photographs of the seven wonders of the world. Holy places,
all. But, if we wait until we travel to a designated “holy place,”
we may never experience the movement and energy of the universal
Source.
That which we call Holy
is everywhere equally—within and without, above and below, and
surrounding us. It is not necessary to leave home and fly away to a
distant land to feel the presence of divine energy—it's right here,
right now, wherever you are. You probably have your favorite holy
sites—places where you feel closest to the Presence—the North
Carolina mountains come to mind for me. I call them “recharging
stations,” where we go to recharge our spiritual batteries. We all
have them. It's nice, but it's not essential to physically travel to them; you
can go there in your mind. You can pull up the image from deep in
your memory banks, layer on the sounds, the smells, the feel of the
soil and the sun, and for five or ten minutes, be there every bit as
much as if you had gotten in your car and driven for hours. You carry
that holy ground within you because you yourself are holy.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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