Scenes From Shiloh-Words from St. Augustine

This is where I was Tuesday.
It was an amazing day for me. A friend asked me to join a group of women in a place called Shiloh. Shiloh has been in this family for 6 generations. I could feel the depth of their roots there. I wanted to pitch a tent and stay a week.




These guys were there, too. They've already pitched their tents.









This is where I am today.

"Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all.

"You called and cried aloud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours." St. Augustine