Landscapes of the Sacred Reading 1

After reading the landscapes of the sacred, I’ve come to realize the severity of having a spiritual/ religious connection. Along with that, I also learned what it meant to go to a sacred place and how it came to be and why they are important. On page 15, the author talks about how in order for a place to be considered sacred, there have to be a ton of stories written or told about it. From pages 16-19 in Landscapes of the Sacred, the author mentions a personal story of how hard it is to find God. He went on to explain his trip to the woods because he was looking for a river. He talks about how he always wants to immediately find and speak to God but most of the time it takes a while. He then goes on to talk about how he was going to leave the woods but felt a calling further into the woods. So, he walked there and leaned against the tree for a while, and then finally after a few minutes of waiting, a female deer walked right up to him. I think that that is super fascinating. The author felt a calling or a presence calling to him to head to a certain place then something out of the ordinary happened to him. But, as I read this part of the book, a part of me was like, can it truly be God or just a coincidence? I have a hard time believing that every one of these stories is an act of God and not just a coincidence. Deer have walked up to people before, and just because a place feels “sacred” doesn’t mean that it’s God’s going. However, while reading these stories with similar outcomes a part of me becomes jealous that people have experienced a “sign from God”.

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