that post about boy going to the woods! ezra's but i was five years old and i took what i was told to mean that the sublime was in my reach
oooh that is interesting because they read as opposite (or more accurately, complementary) to me...the boy needs to go to a special place to access the divine, while the person in the song is trying to find God in mundane, nearby places (search for a church in the bottom of my purse and all!). and it's curious because i feel both the story and the song as deeply personal, and i can relate to them both despite seeing them as different approaches. i think maybe the divine is always touching me, no matter where i am or what i do, but to truly be able to notice it and be in conversation with it i must carry myself to a special space where my chest and mouth can open. the reconciling between the song and the story, for me, is that this special space can be really mundane: for me it is often my shower, which i myself have deemed sacred, despite believing all places are equally godly. and i also think that maybe the walk to the forest is more important than the forest itself, right?
