The Cresset, Thin Places (Advent-Christmas 2012)

Thin Places

Mary M. Brown (bio)

“Thin places are...where the veil
momentarily lifts, and we behold God.”
Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity

In the slim space between the body
of the i and its dot, between any
letter and a comma, between the two
ts in little, between the e and a in beauty
itself, is almost God, almost Word—not
quite, but some place sheer enough
to spell us for a while until the merest
places close down on sin to suggest
a single sentence, simple prose,
spare and lucid as “Let there be light.”