The pictures of the stacked rocks in the slide show are called "Prayer Rocks." Among these pictures are my personal "Prayer Rocks." I built them in the wilderness mountain area in Sedona which is a town located in the High Desert of Arizona and is considered to be a natural vortex. I built my personal prayer rocks as a commemoration unto my heart knowing that I was embarking on the journey of The Last Miracle Mile.

I hiked into the wilderness area beneath the red mountains of Sedona and followed a trail alongside a beautiful river until I suddenly stumbled upon these strange stacked rocks. I then asked someone who was there in the same spot as me exactly what those rocks were. I was told that they were called prayer rocks and that people had built them as they sent prayers forth or that they had built them as a commemoration to a heart decision they had made.

So I too built my personal prayer rocks in this secluded place to honor my hearts decision to travel The Last Miracle Mile of my spiritual journey home to my heart.

Many people visit Sedona to explore its metaphysical dimensions, especially its vortexes. Sedona has been known as a sacred place for a very long time. For hundreds of years Native Americans have performed ceremony in Sedona, and some tribes continue to this day. Sedona as a whole is a vortex, with the energy spread throughout it like a bowl. There have been many visits I've made to Sedona where you could hear the sound of Native American music being played right outside your hotel balcony, so beautiful to the ears that I spent hours sitting on the balcony of my hotel room just to listen to the beauty of the Native American music.

The term vortex means it's a site that is concentrated with spiritual energy and since even before the beginning of the town of Sedona the Native Americans had used these wondrous mountains and performed their ceremonies in Sedona leaving their spiritual energy in this spot.

Vortexes are where energy rises out of the earth and into the earth and are useful when one wishes to view life from a higher plane, to develop a more universal perspective or to send prayer or affirmation out into the world. Vortexes make you feel positive, exhilarated and rejuvenated. They literally unwind you and help you to tap into a universal oneness and harmony.

Each person will experience a vortex differently. Some gain new insights, others experience intense feelings of joy or release, or they gain a new heightened spiritual awareness. I don't need to tell you what I experienced because all of what I just spoke of was experienced by me as I built my prayer rocks.

Sitting quietly and experiencing what I needed to experience in that place by the water's edge with red rock mountains surrounding me was the most direct way I could think of to interact with that vortex as I built my personal prayer rocks. I received such spiritual enlightenment and understanding of the journey I was about to embark on as I built my prayer rocks; I'll never be the same.



Upon the completion of my journey to reach my home my heart, the story of "The Last Miracle Mile" found it's close; I realized then that I had found paradise, journeys end, because I was now given a new slate free from the destruction of my life of pain and hurt on which to build a new foundation to live my life from.

A clean slate was given in the very spot where once stood the demonstration of my hearts great pain in the vision of twisted steel and fallen bricks that 1 year and 8 months later was an even solid ground from which would come forth a new beginning!

"PARADISE," JOURNEY'S END!





MAY YOUR GUIDING LIGHT BE STONG!