Thin Places

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On December 11, we will continue our theme of Wonder with a reading of a sermon by Rev. Gretchen Haley, “Thin Places.”

Rev. Gretchen says “…the idea of a ‘thin place’ is a Celtic concept, traced back to the ancient pagans, and later the Celtic Christians, who used it to describe, as travel writer Eric Weiner puts it, those ‘mesmerizing places like the windswept isle of Iona or the rocky peaks of Croagh Patrick. Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter.’ …As Peter Mayer’s song Holy Now encourages – perhaps the challenge in life is not to look for miracles, but to find where there isn’t one…