Day 4: Liminal Space - Guest Post by the Rev Rebecca Myers

In the midst of a bustling New Year's Eve party my long-time friend Rebecca Myers and I were talking about the idea of liminal space. It was an appropriate discussion for New Year's Eve since liminal space  is defined as a place at or on both sides of a boundary. To put it another way, it the space between what was, what is, and what is yet to come (or the place we found ourselves at 11:35 pm on December 31, 2013.)

We soon drifted away from the discussion, our focus being drawn instead to cake for a friend celebrating his 60th birthday and over tired children amped up on sugar in anticipation of the big noise event at midnight. Fast forward to a few days into 2014 and I read (The Rev) Rebecca's sermon she preached at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC on December 29, 2013. Liminal space, that place where the Celts say the veil between the worlds is the thinnest, is where I and most of my family seem to be living right now.

For Day 4 Pastor Rebecca and I share her liminal space sermon with you at the excerpt link below. I pray it will shed some clarity on the liminal spaces in your life, too.


You see, this liminal space is useful and necessary…. Because we usually don’t like change nor eagerly seek it. We want to hold on to our life as we’ve known it, even if that life is killing us – think the Exodus where the people wanted to go back into bondage rather than be out in the wilderness.

In addition to being Priest-in-Charge of St John's Episcopal Church in Corbin, Kentucky, Pastor Rebecca is also Executive Director of St Agnes House in Lexington, Kentucky. St Agnes House
provides free housing to patients and their families who need treatments and surgeries done at Lexington hospital and medical care facilities.