I read an article by Dan Haseltine entitled "The Morning After" in the newest issue of Relevant Magazine. He describes a place in The Magician's Nephew, a C.S. Lewis book,

a land between two worlds, a land where nothing happens. No sound, no movement, just a place where choices must be made. It is a land between the already and the not yet, between the world of what we have experienced and the world of what we are going to experience next. It is a place where fear and courage rage a silent war, where we take steps to let the greater story of redemption choose our path, or where we set our buffers and burn bridges in order to keep our skin from bruising and our hearts from being crushed.

I feel that in order to create a place similar to this we must be open not so much to the world but to ourselves. It will be a place not to wear a mask but to be yourself, a place to sing the joys of your life and to also bear in eachothers trials, a place to encourage and not bring others down, a place to apologize and not seek revenge, a place that is dangerous but just, and a place that is full of truth and also full of grace. This is where I hope to be and to find all of you.