Thin Places

Heaven and earth are only three feet apart,

but in thin places that distance is even shorter.

                                           Old Celtic Saying

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Sometimes the air is thick

With the heaviness of earth

And so we trod

Heavy too

All the weight of hate and fear

Burdens us

We are bent beneath it all

But there are moments

When we walk into

A thin place

and the Sacred caresses our soul

We can sense the bright mountain behind the mountain,

Taste water cold and clear from an inexhaustible stream

Lose ourselves as the sky opens and we are drawn into a great openness

That expands into eternity

Then the door between the world

And the next

is cracked open for a moment

and we can see

heaven

and we are light

and we are light