As soon as your mind has experienced what the scripture says: "How gracious is the Lord," it will be so touched with that light that it will no longer want to leave the place of the heart. It will echo the words of the apostle Peter: "How good it is to be here." (Symeon the New Theologian)

But unlike Peter we have the opportunity to carry this place with us. We may abide there through every storm and tumult. Most of us have visited this place from time and time. It may have been a moon-lit morning when we were alone, or in the midst of battle surrounded by mayhem. Whatever our context, time is suspended, space opens, quiet descends as a soft breeze. We are embraced and at one with a profound wholeness. God invites us to return and, if we choose, to reside there.