After
hearing stories and seeing movies of spiritual journeys in our ULLC class I was
trying to figure out how I could reach and have these encounters myself. It
wasn’t until after I read Liz Cathey’s final essay for class that I realized
that nature was the true connection to all of these experiences. She wrote of
an Island off of the coast of Michigan in which she found a secret door that
lead to an open balcony on the rooftop of the house they stayed in over the
summer and how seeing the landscape and the ocean around her and being secluded
from all modern life made her feel at peace with life. The experience that God
was sitting right beside her was just so powerful it made me reflect on my own
life experiences. It was then that I realized that the closest I had ever
gotten to a spiritual encounter was while I was in nature, a place separated from
the rest of the world but without reaching a liminal stage.
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