Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only they who see
take off their shoes.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I began to think of sacredness as a kind of dialogue between the human spirit and certain designated places. These sites that call forth reverence, awe, humility, and wonder — we make them sacred. It is a way of honoring those feelings in ourselves. And when we hear the songs the places sing, we hear our own most ancient voices.