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[americanahighways]

REVIEW: Jason Hawk Harris “Thin Places”

REVIEW: Jason Hawk Harris “Thin Places” #jasonhawkharris #charliebigsky #americanahighways #thinplaces #missingpiecegrp #newmusic2023

Jason Hawk Harris, Thin Places “She died on Good Friday just like the Lord, but she didn’t rise up like a King on this bright Easter morning.” Those are the first lines of “Bring Out the Lillies,” the second track on Jason Hawk Harris’ second LP, Thin Places, a modern concept album that cuts to the core of grief and the struggle to hold onto one’s personal faith. Harris sings of tragedy and a…

[dailystill]

WHEN HEAVEN AND EARTH COME CLOSE While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” Luke 24:36 There is a Celtic saying — Heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in “thin places” that distance is even smaller. Where the veil separating heaven and earth disappears and the Presence of God becomes real. The Sea of Galilee is one of those places. A place where you pause in awe as your breath is taken away. I want to live in the miracle of thin places — attentive to divine moments when my faith becomes fully alive. It's the story of Easter. God reaching down to man. Jesus walking and living among us. Dying for us. Resurrection power transforming us. The beauty of being touched by Grace. Always a thin place. DAILY STILL MOMENT: Be on the alert for “thin places” in your day. On earth as it is in heaven! ——————————————- God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever his glance falls He turns all things to beauty.—Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591) Picture: The Sea of Galilee — the lowest fresh water lake on earth, where Jesus performed many of His miracles. #Resurrection #Easter #Heisrisen #Thedailystill #devotional #hope #thinplaces #Godwithus #thingsthatmatter #sunrise #Jesus #Celtics https://www.instagram.com/p/BwsozcDFyjX/?igshid=1l6bf27twqzir

[theferndom]

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[galaxyofcomics]

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[mothric]

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[jamiesonwolf]

Yay!!! Got my copies of Thin Places! This anthology contains my short story Finders Keepers! I'm so thrilled to have my copies! Let me know if you woukd like a signed copy! #thinplaces #brokenkeyspublishing #finderskeepers #authorsofinstagram #writing #shortstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CF0F8aPnMcw/?igshid=1cx4rlqke8zbn

[debgruelleauthor]

Amazing place—Zephyr Point, Lake Tahoe. Amazing Creator and people too. #zephyrpoint #beautifuldestinations #fingerprintsofgod #thinplaces #faithfreedomflourish https://www.instagram.com/p/BzU_ilIA9rU/?igshid=lu6tzvsujuq8

[dreaming9to5]

Sunrise commute. #roswell #everydaysacred #thinplaces #seminarian #seminarylife #lent #fulltimeeverything https://www.instagram.com/p/ButNkGdgKic/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a5btaxmgce1

[clionalilleth]

Faerie Hollow #faerie #fae #hobbittrail #oregon #oregoncoast #thinplace #fairie #celts #faeriehollow #faeries #nature #path #mystical #mystic #portal #lightoetry #beauty #magic #magical (at Hobbit Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4C7T-enta-/?igshid=10tjkux8zbayk

[jacciturner]

Thin place may be closer than you think.

[teachingrounds]

There are many different stories about Down Syndrome. All should be respected. This mother explains why she ended a pregnancy after her unborn son was diagnosed with Trisomy 21.

[lillylewin]

Good Friday Take Away!

 Wine, Cheese, Chocolate and Jesus!  

This has been our invitation to thinplace for the past few years. My husband Rob and I have hosted a thinplace gathering in our home in Cincinnati, Napa Valley and now here in Nashville. thinplaceNASHVILLE happens on Sunday nights. We start with dinner, sometimes a potluck, wine and cheese, and always chocolate. After dinner, we move from the table to the living room and I pass out clipboards, copies of the scripture and any art supplies that folks want to use. The second part of our gathering is a time for journaling and art based off a passage of scripture. We open by praying a psalm together and then doing a lectio divina on a passage usually from one of the Gospels. We listen to a passage in two translations, one being The Message.

 After listening to the passage and allowing the Holy Spirit to highlight something for us, we have 30-45 minutes to just be with the passage and be with God. I write several questions to consider while journaling and I have art supplies if people want to create a response to the passage. During this time, there is a peaceful instrumental playlist playing as a backdrop. Before we begin, I always remind us that there is no wrong way to do this process. Some one might be inspired by the psalm, rather that the gospel and that’s fine. The Holy Spirit might take someone in a totally different direction than either the psalm or the gospel passage and that’s ok too. After the journaling/art time is completed we open up the space for sharing but there is no requirement to do so.

 During the journaling people ponder the questions, write poems, create drawings or just sit with the text. Some people use their phones to find out more about the people or places in the passage or dig a little deeper in another translation of the Bible. When everyone who wants to share has had the opportunity, we close with an experiential element that ties the story to our real lives, often it is something that we can take away to remind us of the passage or remind us to pray.  I actually call these symbols and/or responses “Take Aways.”

 This past week we used the lectionary passage from Ezekiel 37:1-14 as our lectio/ listening passage and had the gospel passage from John 11:1-45 the story of the raising of Lazarus as something that could be read during the journaling time. Each story focuses on bringing life back from death.  The dry bones in Ezekiel need the breath of God breathed back into them. And in the story of Lazarus, Jesus commands his friend to come forth from the tomb and he does, still wrapped in his burial cloths. Both stories also remind us that we too need resurrection and to be unbound from our grave clothes.

As our closing, we passed around strips of muslin and a bowl of mixed spices: cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Each person took a strip of muslin and rolled it in the spices and then made a bracelet from the muslin strip. We are wearing these bracelets as a reminder of our need to be set free and our own need for new life and resurrection. They also remind us of the burial of Jesus and we will cut them off on Easter Sunday as a symbol of resurrection.

 The grave cloth bracelet is a great take away, experiential response that you can do on your own, with your family, with your roommates, your small group or even your entire church community on Good Friday. You might even have some people over for dinner sometime during the week and talk about where they might be feeling “dead” or in need of new life. All you need are enough muslin strips (cut 10-12 inches long so they can be easily tied) some small scissors for trimming the bracelets, a bowl with a mixture of cinnamon, all spice and ground cloves. The bowl needs to be big enough to roll the strip of muslin in easily.

The grave cloth bracelet response is originally from Station 14 in my Experiential Stations of the Cross that you can download at freerangeworship.com.

Jesus is Laid in the Tomb a Good Friday Meditation

This all happened on Friday, the day of preparation, the day before the Sabbath. As evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea took a risk and went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. (Joseph was an honored member of the high council, and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come.) Pilate couldn’t believe that Jesus was already dead, so he called for the Roman officer and asked if he had died yet. The officer confirmed that Jesus was dead, so Pilate told Joseph he could have the body. Joseph bought a long sheet of linen cloth. Then he took Jesus’ body down from the cross, wrapped it in the cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone in front of the entrance. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where Jesus’ body was laid.

Mark 15:42-47

Take a strip of cloth
and roll it in the spices.
Now Make a bracelet with the cloth.

Allow the smell of the spices and the strip of cloth to remind you of Jesus’ death and burial.

Wear it until Easter and then cut off the bracelet and as symbol of resurrection. Or you might wear it longer and Cut it off when you feel you’ve experienced resurrection in the next few weeks.

[jillsrowe]

I believe in ‘slow’. And I believe that going slower means we see more - like sunsets and smiles and colours and faces. When we don’t rush; when we stop believing that what we are doing is so so important that the world will stop turning if we don’t get it done; then we will see so much more. Like the value of the person you just met. Like the taste of the food you just ate. Like the lonely person you just passed but you didn’t take time to look. Like the partner you have but who you know you have got too busy to bother to build up and encourage any more. Like the kid in your life who asks to play and you find yourself over and over and over saying later and later and later. It’s hard, I know. Life screams deadlines and pace and that fast is good. But going slow changes our perspective on this. And when I come to @greenbeltfestival I am reminded of slow. You see, when you are camping it takes an age for the water to boil. You have to sit and wait. And you have to wait for other stuff too. And the result is that you just go slower. Much slower. So think of me as I watch the water boil and the sun rise. These things strangely, are like thin places. In fact I think all of life is full of these thin place moments where we can see heaven and earth touching; where we can notice God - if only we were going slow enough to notice. #thinplaces #life #spiritual #slow #faith #god https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm227g5hf0p/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f3nfmbdxhob2

[dailystill]

THIN PLACES Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Thin places. This concept continues to delight my curiosity. So when the sun finally shines brightly and the day is beautiful in every way, I saturate my senses in the wide open spaces of nature. Face to face with God in His creation. As I wander green pastures and linger beside still waters —a healing balm calms my soul. Rolling hills and sprawling fields offer a covering of praise. A great white heron becomes my only companion. Brilliant flowers urge me to pause and behold their loveliness. And in the quietness I hear the whisper of “peace be still” singing over me. There is an unspoken covenant of slow time when we tread on holy ground. Green space — an invitation to simply BE present in the ordinary moments of life. Nature reminds us the beauty of God’s Presence is always near. Pursuing us. And perhaps as we embrace His marvelous works with joy and appreciation — God is closest to our touch. An ever so thin place. DAILY STILL MOMENT Take 5 minute nature breaks throughout the day and allow this to be your prayer: Lord, help me to step away from the noise and to live in the beauty of an unrushed life. #thedailystill #devotional #franklintn #thinplaces #beauty #harlinsdalefarm #unhurried #bestill #heron #stillwaters #greenpastures

[love-cant-stand-alone]

“THIN PLACES.. the celts call this space. both seem and unseen. where the door between the world and the next is cracked open for a moment. and the light is not all on the other side. God shaped space. Holy.” // #thinplaces #hillsongconf #hillsongconference2017 #StillFindingThinPlaces (at Hillsong Conference Olympic Park)