Welcome to another week on Things Unseen.

If you know the story of George Whitfield, the Englishman who was so instrumental in the

first great awakening in the 18th century in the United States, in the time of Ben Franklin

and people like Jonathan Edwards, you may be know that whenever he went back to the

University of Oxford in England where he'd been a student, he went to kiss the spot

where he remembered his experience of God saving grace.

Now I don't think Whitfield believed that some places or spaces are more holy than others,

but it's true isn't it that if what we eat and drink is sanctified by the word of God

and prayer, there are some places that are kind of sanctified to us, at least made special

to us, and have been sanctified to us by God because of what happened there.

And this week I thought I'd reflect on some of the places in my own life that I like

that, not because my life is so important you need to hear about it, but because I hope

my own reflections will stimulate you this week at least, to look back and to be filled

with a sense of gratitude to God for what he has done for you, perhaps in certain particular

places.

You remember the old him, count your blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise

you what the Lord has done, and we do so easily forget.

The screen saver on my computer at one time was a photograph of the old pulpit that

once stood in St. John's Church in Glasgow in Scotland.

It's no longer there actually, but it was significant to me.

The pulpit itself was unusual.

The whole thing was white and stood maybe 20 feet high and was reached by a spiral staircase.

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