The sacred center of many religious people may be their churches and what is closest to heaven. For me my sacred center is something much different. A sacred center is a place of piece, far away from chaos. My place of peace and ease of mind is anywhere on a soccer field. No matter where it is when I step on the grass or the turf, I am at piece. I am focused and happy, and it is like everything else that is going on in my life disappears as soon as I step inside 120×80 yard box. Those white lines bring me a comfort that I get nowhere else. When I step in to the center circle at the start of every game my mind goes at ease and I am a new person. I can think and process clearly, and I have thought of some of my most life changing decisions in the middle of a soccer game. One game I was playing this summer actually helped lead me to Morningside College, which had I chosen to go to one of my other schools I would been more likely to start, but it would have been for a bad team and I never would have improved as a player. On top of that the education level at the other schools was nowhere close to the quality of education I am receiving here at Morningside. If I was unable to step on to a soccer field and feel the calm I get I never would have found time to be stress free enough to make that decision. When I was contemplating what I should write about for this blog post nothing really struck me as thrilling, or would have given me enough of a thought to write a great in depth blog post. When I stepped on to the field with my friend I realized how much the sacred center, or axis mundi related to my life. It was never in the form of a church or my bed (the first thing I did when moving in was not make my bed (that was indeed my last task), my real comfort zone is in the middle of a soccer field. It could be an unfamiliar field, one I have never set foot on, or one I will never set foot on again; when I step on that field I am home. So my axis mundi is not closest to heaven, does that show that I have more interest in soccer then I do in God? Or is this one of those things that he has placed in my life so that I may feel calm and in this calm I can know that he is in my life?<\/p>\n
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The sacred center of many religious people may be their churches and what is closest to heaven. For me my sacred center is something much different. A sacred center is a place of piece, far away from chaos. My place … Continue reading