there are places we can go, locally, designed to foster prayer, times of reflection and even set the stage for personal repentance, all things that serve to re-set, re-new, re-store what has been lost, or neglected for too long; these places start by extending, morphing the nature of time; they help release the pressure we’re under to perform within a certain time; and so they invite us to connect (or re-connect) with what is eternal and pure within and without; in other words, they put us in closer touch with God