Thin places

This post at TSK has got me thinking... One of the things Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright said in an address to the emerging church was that we should consider the importance of 'place'. That some places held more significance and were more spiritual than others. The Celtic church used to talk about thin places - that is places where the separation between earth and heaven is thin.

I have experienced many of these places during my life - there is a small glade in the stand of oak near my office where I often go to pray, there are some church buildings which just exude the presence of God (and many that don't), there was the Christian bookshop in Worcester - sadly now closed. One of these for me is St Mary Woolnoth in Lombard Street in London. It is an imposing building but not my taste, but it is a place of peace. I went there recently and almost broke down with the overwhelming sense of God's grace - appropriate because it is the Church where John Newton was Rector. I felt released and forgiven as I left.

I wonder if there are thin virtual places - on the net?