Where Heaven and Earth Meet - Micah 5:2c-5a
Patch Adams encountered a thin place. He had found himself in a difficult place. He and his friends, including his girlfriend, had committed their lives as doctors helping the less fortunate. In the midst of their service, in a tragic situation, his fiancĂ© is murdered by a mentally ill patient. In anger and desperation, he cries out to God…and in a thin place, in a very thin place, God responds, making his presence known. What is a thin place? The idea of a “thin places” is a Celtic notion. Where often we think of Heaven as being “up there somewhere” the Celts thought of the distance between Earth and Heaven as being “three feet apart.” They felt that there were places on earth where that distance narrowed and where we could experience the meeting of heaven and earth. One of the places they felt this happed was in Iona [i] . While I have never been to Iona, I have a couple of friends who have been there as part of a spiritual r...