Come & visit my favourite Abbey with me ....

I had cause to visit my favourite local Lilleshall Abbey . I have visited this dozens of times, even though

there are several local Abbey's that I visit, this is the one I love the most. 

Lilleshall Abbey is the one  I feel connected to spiritually. It is a place that calms my mind & soul & I am always so happy to find myself alone there, free to take in the atmosphere of the stones. 

I visited again recently & being alone, I climbed the tiny tower with its stone staircase that spirals up to a little space. The stairs are worn by centuries of feet & I am always aware of that history. It is a space you have to take care in as it the stairs are narrow & steep but the view is worth it as it catches the breeze across the fields ... 

It is the place I come to when my mind is troubled and I need to make sense of the world.  Sometimes life just overwhelms you when things & people are not as you wish them to be & you see them for how they are. 

These stones absorbed such times last year when I was totally at loss to understand a situation & a health scare made me feel very vulnerable - I needed space to think. I'm sure we all have such times when we just need a quiet spiritual space to make sense of it all ... 

This Abbey would have been a landmark in the countryside with its vast height & the chanting drifting across the fields. 

At times, when alone,  I have caught the sound of voices & have backtracked to find it quiet, then they start up as soon as you leave the space, whispers, shadows ... 

It can only be described as layers of comforting history - to feel that it is still fulfilling its use centuries later as a spiritual space. That is why I love it so much when it is quiet. 

Thank you for visiting with me, I hope you have a space too that you can go to when you need clarity & hope, 

Dee 💕