Are you familiar with the term
liminal?
It comes from the Latin word
for threshold.
Liminal spaces are those
where the boundary
between this world and the next,
between the physical and spiritual
is particularly thin,
and one wonders--
appropriately--
if the boundary may, in fact,
not exist at all.
Liminal spaces
are sacred spaces
Liminal moments are those
in which past, present and future
seem to merge,
when we are--
even if momentarily--
in touch with something greater,
perhaps sensing and seeing
the essential oneness of things--
of you and others,
of God and creation.
Moments when you
are suddenly aware
of the grandeur of God,
or the all-embracing love of the Divine,
or the beauty of all other people--
these are liminal moments.
Liminal moments
are sacred moments.
Liminal spaces
and liminal moments
obliterate the divisions
of "right here" and "over there,"
between the sacred and secular,
between you and God.
When have you found yourself
(and hence your soul)
in a liminal space?
a liminal moment?
And how were you transformed?
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