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Specialness
The following day he told me that there was not
a spot anywhere in the universe that the
presence of the Creator did not fill; I could not,
By Chris Anderson/Onefeather
in fact, find a place that was not sacred.

As a teenager I often roamed throughout the
Over the next few days I considered his words
foothills of the Rocky Mountains and sought out
and visited a number of places where I had felt
places along the Arkansas River that I imagined
a separate and personal connectedness that I
to be “sacred”. I revealed one of these hallowed
could not recognize in the greater world that I
areas to my grandfather and he asked me what
inhabited. I knew that “my places” were special
it was that I thought made this particular spot
for me even if God was all pervasive and
unique. I was at a loss for words and finally I
everywhere. While he (my grandfather) had not
said, “I don’t know. I think it’s just a feeling that
rebuked me, he had caused me to consider the
I have when I go there.”
bigger picture.

He smiled and asked me to think about it more.


Finally, I approached him, looking for resolution

in the quandary that he had presented me with.


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