Thin Places
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In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of 'thin places' in her life---places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. As DeMuth writes, 'Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just catch a glimpse of eternity. They are aha moments, beautiful realizations, when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh.' From losing her earthly father to discovering a heavenly Father who never leaves, from singing Olivia Newton-John songs to the sky to worshiping God under a French sun, from surviving abuse as a latchkey kid to experiencing the joy of mothering three children, DeMuth's story calls readers to a deeper understanding of their own story. With unusual spiritual wisdom, she looks for God in the past so that she might experience him more profoundly in the present. Her powerful words invite readers to know God in a new way---a God ready to break through any ordinary day or extraordinary pain and offer a glimpse of eternity.
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What is a thin place? “The Celts define a thin place as a place where heaven and the physical world collide, one of those serendipitous territories where eternity and the mundane meet,” author Mary E. DeMuth explains. “Thin places are snatches of time, moments really, when we sense God intersecting our world in tangible, unmistakeable ways....He has come near to my life. I will tell you how.”
And DeMuth does. She shares with her readers the times in her past when she came very close to God. Often the moments were preceded by difficult events, terrible events, horrifying events. DeMuth is able to find the redemption in the terrible, and that is one of her gifts as a storyteller.
