At breakfast this morning looking at the view you see for this blog entry we began to discuss about a ‘holy place’ needing a building or not, and if not, what then makes it feel ‘holy’? Is it feeling, emotion, experience and does everyone feel the same way about that place? I know I have experienced God’s presence and healing power on a hill near my native Wigan, and consider it in someway to be a holy place, but I doubt all the sightseers and Ice Cream eaters have experienced the same. We talk of mountain top experiences. What made them so? I have no doubt that those lucky enough to have visited the Holy Land will have had this type of feeling without a building.
So why? We will return to this subject later in the journey, when we will possibly put into more detail the places we both feel are ‘holy’. For now however would you like to post a comment about anywhere you feel is ‘holy’ or special in a spiritual way for you. You don’t need to share details if you don’t want, just the place.
Holy Places - a journey of discovery 
The top of Shutlinsloe, the Cheshire Matterhorn is a special place for me. It is high up, you can see for miles, you can with a little bit of imagination see my house from the top and with even more imagination you can see Old Trafford. However it’s not those views which make it a spiritual place for me or at least it does have something to do with being able to see those places but from such a different perspective. It helps me get things in order, it helps me talk to God, it helps me to realise you can get bogged down down there. It is a big effort to get up there although I have seen people running up the track and then back down again but they miss the whole point of it. The beauty, the wildness, the wind whipping your breath away and trying to knock you over, the power you can’t see. I haven’t been there for a while and I think I need to re visit it soon.
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