For the sake of avoiding being forsaken..

Peace, welcome, clarity, some of the many reasons we seek solace in the sacred... The profane, is quite often disturbing and distressing.. We move towards the unknown, coz it is accepting. The worst fear that any human has is to be forsaken, and not accepted.. God and the "divine" power is so beseechingly tempting because it is all accepting. We are taught that the divine is all pervasive and nothing is hidden from him. So therefore, he has been with you in your darkest hour, your most guilty deed and yet will not judge you coz there are others like you, better and more importantly worse.

Therefore, we visit a shrine because we know we will not be turned away.. because we need to know that we will not be forsaken, that somebody or something still believes in us and that is why we are there... or rather that in our most negative moment.. we Still believe in something or somebody.. and that is why we are there...