I first heard the phrase “thin place” more than twenty years ago, watching the sun rise over a Wisconsin lake with a new acquaintance. She told me it was a place where it was easy to meet God. Not practicing any faith at that point, it really spoke to me.
But recently I ran across this book by Julianne Stanz, subtitled “Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace.” Her definition is a bit different: “Your thin place might be an important threshold, a soul friendship, a fresh chapter in your own life story, a painful secret or fear or a time of hardship. … These moments open us to places of rawness and beauty.”
It seemed like the perfect thing for quarter-Irish me to delve into in March… as Lent begins!
What’s on your nightstand?
