Thin Places (Part Two)
I remember when as a teen, we used to have recreation parks all around our city in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. I spent many hours at our local park, ice skating on the frozen pond 
skiing and sliding down what I thought was a huge mountain. (really only a large hill). Playing group games and cards and thinking we were the ‘cool group.’ I learned a lot of life lessons in that local park. It soon became the place where God spoke to my heart and called me into full time ministry. It was one of those ‘thin places‘ for me when God showed up in an unexpected place. When I go back to my home town, I often drive by that park while visiting family. Why? Because I have tough days like everybody else, and I need a ‘burning bush‘ to remind me of why I’m doing what I’m doing. It was an ‘altar‘ place for me.
I wonder if Peter ever rode back out to that spot on the Sea of Galilee where he walked on water? Did Zacchaeus ever take his grandchildren back to climb the Sycamore tree where he caught his first glimpse of Jesus? Did Lazarus ever revisit the tomb where he was buried for four days? Did Paul ever ride out to the mile marker on the road to Damascus where God knocked him off his high horse? Did Abraham ever take Isaac back to Mt. Moriah where God provided a ram in the thicket? And I wonder, if Moses ever returned to the burning bush, took off his sandals and thanked God for interrupting the forty year routine of his life by giving him a second chance to make a difference.
Thin places calls you to discover new ways to look for God in the past so that you might experience Him more profoundly in the present. When you are broken, God meets you in thin places.
What if you could retrace your life and discover its thin places – places where the division between this world and the eternal fades?
Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might catch a glimpse of eternity. They are ‘Aha” moments, beautiful realizations when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh.
Just a thot—->When God seems absent from us, He is often doing His most important work in us.
