If it wasn’t the first time Matt appeared at our door, it was close. Halloween had arrived. The doorbell rang and there was Matt, held by his mother Ruth, and wonderfully adorned as a sunflower. All would have been well except that I, having always dressed for Halloween myself, had cut a couple of holes…
I have been tempted to scoff, I must confess, at the idea, theology, doctrine, concept of something called “thin places.” The premise is that there are some physical locations on earth where the boundaries fall away between heaven and earth thus providing the visitor or resident an extraordinary experience of oneness with God. While the…