Labyrinth
I'm sure the title will be misleading, but everything else I tried just served to take away the power of that one word. This is not a discussion of the Jim Henson film starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie, and I apologize if that is disappointing to you. As it evolves, though, there may be some parallels. This morning, my family and I walked the labyrinth at Glendale United Methodist Church, here in Nashville. It's a cold and gray morning, pretty typical of Tennessee in early April, so we weren't able to really savor the experience as I'd have liked, but for a first very short labyrinth walk, a surprising number of thoughts came into my head. To back up a little, I first learned of labyrinth as a spiritual discipline in a Spiritual Formation class I took last spring. As the only 50-something in a class full of late teens and early 20-somethings, I had gotten used to the reactions of my classmates to things they'd never heard of. Most of the class enthus