Every other Thursday, a group of us meet at the Common Grounds BookCafe to watch the DVD series "The Historical Jesus" and to discuss. On the off-Thursdays, I would like to get a group up to go to the labyrinth at Pilgrim Park (by Princeton, IL).
The labyrinth is a spiritual walk path. (To read about the Grace Cathedral labyrinth, click here.) It's not a hedge maze or a corn maze. It's a series of rocks on the ground in a patter that one walks. The walking time is spent in prayer and meditation. The one at Pilgrim Park is outside. This has been the problem.
The last two (or three?) off-Thursdays have been rain laiden. It's one thing to go out to the labyrinth and remember one's baptism. It is another to go out there and be drowned by waters flooding unrestrainably from the sky. Bummer.
Today, however, looks like it's going to hold out with acceptable weather. I should perhaps add a "maybe" in there somewhere, because it is getting a bit cooler out ther...and slightly darker. If it rains, formal complaints will promptly be filed, and the follow-up may include a sit-in protest...provided it doesn't rain.
EDIT: Yet again, we did not go. "Why?" you ask. Well, two reasons. First, it looked like rain. No, it didn't rain, but I thought it was going to. Second (and more importantly), I remembered at 5pm that if I wanted to use the labyrinth at Pilgrim Park, they want a bit of forewarning. This allows them to reserve it for people paying to go on retreat there if necessary, and lets the groundskeepers know that we don't bite. Maybe next time I'll remember this important bit of info before 3pm.
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