Live always at the edge of poetic possibilty, even in the face of severe prose. - Walter Bruggemann
Monday, June 2, 2008
Sunrise on the Galilee
This beautiful sunrise was over the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias. The next few days I will post photographs from places that we've visited in the past week. My son and his girlfriend have been visiting from the States. They leave this evening and then my other son and his girlfriend will be in on Friday! Lot's of travel, lots of fun.
Journal. Diary. Copious Notes. Musings. Thought. Reflection. Observation. Welcome to A Thin Place. All of this, maybe more, is a record of my year in Jerusalem - the thinest place on earth.
A "thin place", in Celtic tradition, is someplace, anyplace, where the spiritual world and the mortal world come so close to one another that you almost see, definitely feel, and maybe even can touch the presence of God. I suspect that my life in Israel will contain moments of clarity just like this. The opaque will become translucent, the hazy clear, and God's presence a reality.
After serving congregations in Fairfield, Bridgeport, and Wilton, CT I am the Senior Redevelopment Pastor at Orange Congregational Church in Orange, CT. Prior to that I lived in Jerusalem (the real one) and I have three GORGEOUS children, the loves of my life.
1 comment:
Yofi! Enjoy the kids.
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