OK...just one more quick thought, "liberated" (as it were) from one of my favorite liberation theologians...and so appropriate as we begin this Thin Places Pilgrimage together, friends!

Yesterday, while visiting the Stanton Drew Stone Circle, I was again reminded of the many ways that the so-called "sacred" and so-called "secular" live peacefully side by side...perhaps, they, it, we, are ALL sacred? Love letters written from God AND to God? But of course!

God's Love Letters

Ernesto Cardenal

All animals who lift their voices at dawn sing to God. The volcanoes and the clouds and the trees cry to us about God. The whole creation cries to us penetratingly with a great joy about the existence and the beauty and the love of God. The music roars it into our ears, the landscape calls it into our eyes. In all of nature we find God's initials, and all God's creatures are God's love letters to us.

All of nature burns with love created through love to light love in us. Nature is like a shadow of God, a reflection of God's beauty. The still, blue lake is a reflection of God. In every atom lives an image of the trinity, a figure of the trinitarian God. And also my own body is created to love God. Each of my cells is a hymn about the Creator and an ongoing declaration of love.

Source: To Live Is to Love