Daily Devotion - Thursday, May 6

Holy Ground
Fourth in a Devotional Series dealing with a Sacred Text

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals,
for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
--Part of a conversation between God and Moses
Recorded in Exodus, 3:5

The quest to understand holy ground is important. The following story might help.

Most of my days are filled with normal tasks—people interaction, desk work, conversations, some reading and some writing. Late one day I visited with a person I met several months before. She really didn’t recognize me, so she wanted to hear about the times we had spent together while she was comatose for more than 40 days and nights. Now, dealing with the many emotions of a required return, she needed some extra emotional strengthening. At one point, she told me that she was encountering a number of staff who were stopping by-- former caregivers from across the hospital. “I didn’t expect to be remembered,” she said. And then she added, “I know this is a special place.”

As my visit concluded, I had learned a little more about holy ground.

--Ben Keckler
05.06.10