Lucia Eitzen
Everything is Sacred
Reflections on NAIITS Symposium: “Land & Place: Indigenous Perspectives in an Era of Displacement”
Maybe the conversation I had with an indigenous couple from New Zealand sums it all up. They invited me to sit with them. They wanted to get to know me and learn where I felt at home. As they shared their story, he said until he became a Christian, he had not known there was a distinction between the sacred and the secular.
In his indigenous spirituality, everything was sacred. We burst out laughing. I said, for me, it is the other way around. I am now learning that everything is sacred. It is this learning that guides me in sharing these reflections on the NAIITS Symposium I attended at Tyndale University in Toronto this past June. It was called “Land & Place: Indigenous Perspectives in an Era of Displacement”.
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