In His Light
by Joan Schultz
Have
you ever experienced a moment when you felt you were in a special place at a
special time that had a divine impact on you?
That kind of experience recently happened to me.
I
arrived very early for the noontime Ash
Wednesday service. After my husband
dropped me off in the parking area, I made my slow journey to the chapel using
my walker. On this day it was cold and windy
- no one else was going in my direction yet.
The sun was being reflected off of the big, old refurbished church bell
now mounted on the grounds nearby. Shadows
of leaves moved as though they were dancing - also caught my attention.
Finally
I reached my favorite spot along my walk.
It was at the start of the long, wooden ramp leading up to the chapel
entrance. Here, in between the wooden
vertical supports for the railing, are wooden slats with cutouts in them which
form a cross. On this particular day and
at this particular time the subdued sunlight coming through the overcast clouds
was being projected through this cutout of the cross - forming a shadow on the horizontal
floorboards of the ramp. On this day I
was going to have to actually step on the reflection of the cross as I made my
ascent up the ramp. Halfway up the ramp
there was another such cutout and another shadow of a cross being cast in my
path. I had never experienced stepping
on the crosses in the many other times I had made this walk. This was a special happening.
As
I continued up the ramp to the entrance I had to make a turn which made me rise
above the part of the ramp I had just been on.
When I looked down on the shadows I had just seen, they now were at such
angles that they took on the appearance of arrows. Suddenly I noticed these arrows were pointing
towards the two stations of the cross which were mounted outside the ramp on
posts. I was enthralled with the beauty
of my surroundings - enjoying the solitude.
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