Making Nature Sacred-Chelsea Gilbert

While reading about William Bradford and the Plymouth Plantation, I came upon a realization that never occurred to me while learning about him in middle school. Places like Plymouth Plantation, Jamestown, Williamsburg, New England cities, they can all be sacred places. Many of our American colonies were settled on for freedom of religion and the spread of Christianity. All of these places define sacred in one way or another. It is interesting to look back or visit old colonial places and know you are stepping on a special ground. Early pilgrims and settlers called these places their homes. They worshipped on them, lived on them, ate on them, and breathed their air. They are monumental places that will always stay in history. But they can be seen as sacred places as well. It was interesting to find a connection like that with something that occurred hundreds of years ago. Sacred places can be found anywhere, on any ground, at any time, but its the reason to be there and the transformation that occurs that makes a place sacred. William Bradford's Plymouth Plantation was in fact a sacred place.