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.
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 💕
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