Greetings from the Vortex Capitol!
2 Comments
»
So Debbie and I are in Sedona, Arizona for a couple days. We are doing a short holiday before joining Pastor Bill Johnson and 1800 others for a Leaders' Advance at Bethel Church in Redding, California.
Sedona is situated among the most amazing and beautiful red rock outcroppings you can imagine.
Anyway, this is a new-agey place. There are four vortexes in the area (or is it vorteces?). A vortex is a place where the earth's electro-magnetic energy is particularly strong. If you are at all spiritually sensitive, the brochures say, you will feel it. People come to get the energy.
Debbie and I did at least ten miles of hiking today up and around these rock formations. visited three vortexes (or is it vorteces? I digress). Yours truly felt nothing. Nada. The null set. Very spiritually insensitive. Could not get my energy balanced at all. I was feeling quite dull.
Then we visited the Chapel of the Holy Cross. Conceived by a Roman Catholic layperson and artist. Helped in her design by Frank Lloyd Wright. She was inspired to design a modern house of worship that would portray the beauty of the cross and the one who died there out of love for humanity. The outbreak of WWII set aside plans to build the church in Budapest. (Am I remembering right? It was one of the eastern European capitols.) Then, she thought of her own backyard. She is from this part of Arizona.
The chapel is set into the side of a red rock butte and can be seen for miles off. The cross looks like it grows out of the rock face with a frame around it. It is featured in all the tourist literature and when we saw it from another rock outcropping miles away, we knew we had to go and see it.
I was not prepared to be blown away.
The moment I walked in, I knew I had found the vortex. The chapel is open to the public. It is a tourist attraction. Even on this cold and snowy day, dozens of people were in and out of the chapel while we were there. But the presence of God met me as I walked into the alcove. In the sanctuary I could hardly speak. I immediately sat down on one of the simple benches and began to pray. Before Debbie and I left we offered a brief prayer to the Lord quietly. It took a while to gather enough composure before we could do this without crying.
Overwhelming Presence! The Energy that animates all of creation. The Great Balancer of all wrongs, ills and evils. That One made his presence known without words. His age is old and forever new. The age he ushers in is that which makes all things new. He met us today in the rocks and in that house of witness set in the rocks. A vortex of Presence.
RM
Sedona is situated among the most amazing and beautiful red rock outcroppings you can imagine.
Anyway, this is a new-agey place. There are four vortexes in the area (or is it vorteces?). A vortex is a place where the earth's electro-magnetic energy is particularly strong. If you are at all spiritually sensitive, the brochures say, you will feel it. People come to get the energy.
Debbie and I did at least ten miles of hiking today up and around these rock formations. visited three vortexes (or is it vorteces? I digress). Yours truly felt nothing. Nada. The null set. Very spiritually insensitive. Could not get my energy balanced at all. I was feeling quite dull.
Then we visited the Chapel of the Holy Cross. Conceived by a Roman Catholic layperson and artist. Helped in her design by Frank Lloyd Wright. She was inspired to design a modern house of worship that would portray the beauty of the cross and the one who died there out of love for humanity. The outbreak of WWII set aside plans to build the church in Budapest. (Am I remembering right? It was one of the eastern European capitols.) Then, she thought of her own backyard. She is from this part of Arizona.
The chapel is set into the side of a red rock butte and can be seen for miles off. The cross looks like it grows out of the rock face with a frame around it. It is featured in all the tourist literature and when we saw it from another rock outcropping miles away, we knew we had to go and see it.
I was not prepared to be blown away.
The moment I walked in, I knew I had found the vortex. The chapel is open to the public. It is a tourist attraction. Even on this cold and snowy day, dozens of people were in and out of the chapel while we were there. But the presence of God met me as I walked into the alcove. In the sanctuary I could hardly speak. I immediately sat down on one of the simple benches and began to pray. Before Debbie and I left we offered a brief prayer to the Lord quietly. It took a while to gather enough composure before we could do this without crying.
Overwhelming Presence! The Energy that animates all of creation. The Great Balancer of all wrongs, ills and evils. That One made his presence known without words. His age is old and forever new. The age he ushers in is that which makes all things new. He met us today in the rocks and in that house of witness set in the rocks. A vortex of Presence.
RM
Subscribe by RSS