In my life as an Episcopal priest I’ve experienced my share of strange and amazing and peculiar events and people in the course of my ministry.  I also experience the world outside the walls of church and home as a lens which reveals mystery.  Look long enough and the sacred will appear.   The notes and photos here are part of a sabbatical journey exploring that sacred dimension.

Anne Kelsey

                                             

  

I am the Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in the Central West End of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Celtic spirituality describes places where people encounter the sacred as “thin places” and times of the year when we’re more likely to have religious experiences as “thin times”.  People have always gone to particular spots in nature like the canyons and mesas of the American southwest to make religious experience more likely.  But I find a crack in the divine eggshell on the waters of a pond in Ohio and walking the woods of beech and maple.  I return to these time and again both for solace and for strength.