Outside readin numero uno

From Trailblazer.com, a hiker Cozy says that while in elementary school, she read the book, “My Side of the Mountain,” and ever since then she believed that God planted a “seed” or desire in her heart to hike the Appalachian Trail. She then talks about the feeling of that desire. “I suppose that’s how it begins for many of us. There’s a high interest, a strong desire, a gravitational pull that leads us to the Trail. People who don’t feel the pull will never understand why we need to go. But those who do feel it understand completely.” In Landscapes of the Sacred, it talks about the different axioms that categorize a place as sacred. The first axiom states, “sacred place is not chosen, it chooses.” This simply means that you cannot just declare a place sacred. This “pull” that Cozy talks about is a part of that. She is drawn to this place by a force that she cannot control, herself. The trail picked her; she did not pick the trail.