Mindful Sauntering – between Heaven and Earth

And Jacob dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. Genesis 28:12

Heaven and Earth are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even smaller. A thin place is where the veil that separates Heaven and Earth is lifted and one is able to receive a glimpse of the glory of God. (Celtic tradition)

Nothing Is Far

BY ROBERT FRANCIS

Though I have never caught the word

Of God from any calling bird,

I hear all that the ancients heard.

Though I have seen no deity

Enter or leave a twilit tree,

I see all that the seers see.

A common stone can still reveal

Something not stone, not seen, yet real.

What may a common stone conceal?

Nothing is far that once was near.

Nothing is hid that once was clear.

Nothing was God that is not here.

Here is the bird, the tree, the stone.

Here in the sun I sit alone

Between the known and the unknown.

And Jesus said, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.’ John 1:51

Christ came down to raise us up, for Christ joins Earth with Heaven.

Lord Jesus Christ, through your life and death, you opened wide the way between Heaven and Earth, come close to us now that we may glimpse Heaven on Earth and so be inspired to lift our lives up to you. Amen.