Monday, September 21, 2015

Sacred Place


                  September 21, 2015
Sacred Place

My grandparent’s home, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, has always been somewhere that I have loved to visit.  It was not until the last few years that I realized just how special this place was to me.  And although the home has always been there ever since I was born, to me, the subjects fulfilling the home make this place sacred to my heart.  In this place the subjects always make me feel so loved, happy, and filled with pride.  In recent years as I was concluding my high school experiences they took note in all of my accomplishments and told me that I could strive for what ever I wished and that I would one day accomplish it.  Although my immediate family at home does the exact same thing I think what made this place more sacred was being there for only one or two days a month.  As written in the book Landscapes of the Sacred, “Those places are frequently the most ordinary ones entered anew with awe” (32).  This place which I did visit once or twice a month has become a sacred place in my eyes, and I have encountered an instance where sacred place, in fact, is ordinary place.

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