In his Pentecost 10 sermon Clay follows up on Chicken and Barley Soup by asking how do we know the divine we seek in prayer? "It’s a challenge because we don’t have a picture of the divine. But that has not stopped human ingenuity from trying to create one that we can wrap our limited minds around. We do it by separating the world into sacred and profane: Things or people that are of the divine and things or people that are not. That sounds easy enough on the face of it: Mother Theresa sacred, Paris Hilton not; the parish church sacred, the local casino profane. We consider knowing what is sacred a little like distinguishing art from pornography? We know it when we see it." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=327&id=748