Props/Visuals: You may want to use visuals of mountains or misty seas, or you may want to use the painting by Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” or other paintings by Friedich.

The Celtic Christian spiritual tradition has always noted the existence of something they call “thin places.”

If you travel to Ireland or Scotland, especially to places like the Isle of Iona, you can’t help but realize how those ancient Christians came to think about “thin places.” Both countries boast exquisitely beautiful landscapes that look practically heaven kissed.

But a thin place doesn’t just have to be in nature, although it can be. A thin place is anywhere in which the “distance between heaven and earth collapses and we can catch glimpses of the divine or transcendent or infinite.”*…