Shannon's Corner

   SHANNON’S CORNER July 2021 I remember the many times of touring the Franciscan Monastery in Lima, Peru, seeing the beautiful artwork and cathedral.  One part of the tour is to go down into the catacombs.  As you walk down you get this damp, musty smell that greets you.  The lighting is very dim, and it is pretty solemn.  As the guide is sharing about the history of the catacombs you are walking in between rows of dry bones that go three to four feet deep.  Most of the bones seem to be from the arms and legs.  Then you walk over to this big well-like or cistern like object and look over the edge and it is filled with skulls.  I know that this was their cemetery but it just felt so strange to walk among so many bones and I know that what we saw were not all the bones that were there in the catacombs just what was on display for tourists to see. When I read the passage in Ezekiel 37:1-14, God leads Ezekiel t...