Sacred space

Prayer stations served as a sanctuary for us during this busy weekend. We were able to walk the labyrinth. The labyrinth is a means of claiming that no step is ever lost. Even our missteps God may use to direct us. There was a prayer painting station and we hung our artwork of prayer on the clothesline. The prayer wall was symbolic of the western wall in Jerusalem where people pray and place written prayers in the crack of the wall. And finally the cave was a womb-like space with a single candle representing Christ's light in a dark world. Everyone hears and receives God's word differently. No one travels the same path. Bishop Hayes reminded us that God doesn't call the equipped, but equips those who are called.

We were challenged to ask ourselves "where is a place you would like to go where no one has ever been? Paul met a lot of roadblocks to Macedonia but the holy spirit kept re-directing him. This generation will respond to a "calling" but perhaps not one call. They are willing to change directions more so than previous generations. But each time they receive a different calling it will be necessary to maintain a divine center to call the scattered self into an integrated whole.