Wafer-Thin Places….
I had never heard about Thin Places until recently reading a blog, and it immediately resonated with me spiritually. I suppose they are different for everyone but I have definitely experienced some and they are amazing places. I experience God’s sacred Presence, comfort & safety there, along with an equal amount of pleasant suspense, wonder & validation of a world beyond earth. It’s different from the daily Presence of God I have come to know deeply. The veil is very thin between this world & the next.
Kremer Kove is one of those places for me. As soon as we round the corner of the open ocean into the long arm bay, it begins. It is a gradual unfolding, a thinning of any sense of hectic or crowded or too busy; a closing in of such unique & special space & a closing out of distracting, unimportant things; a sharpening of senses that allows me to fully experience palpable Peace and Awe of my Creator in a Place. It is a set-aside location that is different from experiencing God wherever I am in my daily, which is amazing; yet this wafer-thin place is a short footstep away to being engulfed in a bubble of connection with God that is almost beyond being able to explain with my words. Nearest I can liken it to is when I watched Jim Carrey step through the artificial “sky” in the scene when he realizes his world is a movie set & all fake. It’s all that close. The one step. What I love about my Kremer Kove wafer-thin place is that it is a not fake disappointment as in the Truman Show; it is more real than the best hope of amazingness that I could conjure up in my mind & the easy and unforced, yet stronger than the strongest tensile strength connection I have with my Thin Place is for me a gift & unexpected God-Kiss for which I will always be so very grateful. It never grows old for me, it always has such a wow-God factor that He has seen fit to allow such a beautiful, heavenly place for me on earth. The experience is what I liken to a fancy dinner presentation by a white-gloved person slowly lifting an ornate dome from an exquisite tray to reveal majesty & perfection.
Historically, thin places can be marked by memorials or markings of some sort depicting holy ground or a location where something very meaningful has happened. Such as stacking of stones in the Old Testament or walls of remembrance throughout history. When I see old stone cabins, old shacks, remains of a farm & lives having been there, I’ve often been drawn to wonder what is their story, what happened there, what is the connection to the people & that which they made with their heart & hands, their thin place perhaps? The remnants of a special place still seems to resonate.
Where might your thin place be? It’s worth exploring!