Our First Night

863. When You are Old

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,.....

William Butler Yeats. b. 1865

Exodus 3 New International Version (NIV)

Moses and the Burning Bush

Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.  

Sacred and holy would imply an experience of heightened awareness of a time & space.  A space that evokes one to stop, look and listen and to take off ones sandals and become aware.  A stopping of the busyness that takes over our lives and we no longer see, hear or smell where we are.  This farm is a holy place, a sacred place where pilgrims have traveled to stop, look and listen again to the earth.  To push aside the frantic pace of life where one looses the capacity to see a sunrise, or hear the birds or...to smell the earth.  The earth is a sacred and holy place and Moses needed a burning bush to get his attention from all his busyness of leading his people out of Egypt.  

We loose our connections sometimes.  We loose our connections to each other and to our surroundings.  And because we sometimes loose our capacity to feel, touch and smell our spouses, our children, our families & friends; a sacred place is a reminder - a bookmark so to speak - to return to God in the midst of the burning bush and to take notice...

Pond behind the barn