Ghost Towns and Taize by Shawn in Arizona
Slide Rock Park was our morning location. Oak Creek cuts through all of Sedona and at this particuliar location 800 feet of the creek cuts through the sandstone. This has created a natural water slide and some supreme swimming holes that we made great use of.
After lunch we headed to the one time ghost town of Jerome on the Hill. This town is now a boom town of artists and history. One of the team leaders, Shannon, challenged us to look at areas of our lives that are like ghost towns (dead and immobile) and areas of our lives that we feel blessed in (our boom towns).
We found a place this evening as we attended the moving Taize service in the Chapel of the Holy Cross, an engineering marvel built into the mountainsides of Sedona by one of the disciples of Frank Lloyd-Wright. Hearing the voices in song, praying together and leaving our burdens at the cross was a transformative experience for all who engaged.