published on BODAISHIN page
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey
is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. -Eckhart Tolle
And so it is, so simple, so complete, yet eluding the mind that grasps for it, even into the wonder of the Universe.
This abandoned church has been left mostly unharmed; its place is held secret so that others do not come to damage it. We must secure those things we love today behind closed doors, in secret hiding places. To keep the dream from the nightmare. What is America these days I so often wonder? We look to Europe and see standing the buildings from centuries ago, kept alive and secure. Not so the cemeteries of our youth, those places where grottos and statues and stations of the cross lived and spoke. Once. Now no more. Can there be a future? Can there be a future when there is no past?
I found these guys while checking out AnotherKindOfGrass on WordPress. Nice site, nice photo. It’s always so sweet to find kindness for all of Earth’s Creatures. Yes?
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Sometimes I have to take a break from the sickness of the world and turn to the beauty of nature. For me, that’s the religion that restores my soul.
It seems to me that we discard those most precious things of our culture and history. So many beautiful churches are being demolished, abandoned, violated. We leave such beauty to be ravished by nature or the hands of man. We don’t seem to treasure much in America. I always puzzle at that lack of regard for our own history and those monuments to faith and art. I never find redeeming answers. I’m only left with sadness.
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America
