Panreligious musings

What exactly is an interfaith chapel? What does that mean? I always thought of a chapel as a sort of consecrated space, but doesn't that imply that it's consecrated for some particular faith? Can you consecrate a place for every conceivable religion (and I can tell you, this hospital is one of the most multinational places I've ever been) without one somehow canceling out the other? I'm not sure how that works.

Or maybe it's not specifically consecrated for any faith. What would you call that? Oh, I know. A room. In this room they have one service each weekday and meditation once a week for an hour. Otherwise it seems to sit empty from 6AM to 11PM every day. Strange business, this interfaith religious stuff.

Not much doing so far today. I haven't been out outside a lot, although we had friends drive up from Philly for a visit and while they were there I went out for pizza with one of them. There's an old armory with an indoor track nearby where they've been having meets all weekend. School buses double-parked everywhere. I'd love to have gotten a peek inside when one was going on. We used to go to a track meet called the Millrose Games when I was a kid and they were at Madison Square Garden. I remember enjoying them a lot. Now they hold the Millrose Games across the street from where I'm sitting, in 3 weeks.

I had been told that weekends are different at hospitals, and in some ways they are. There's definitely not quite as much staff here and not as much activity in general. The only surgeries done are emergencies and this isn't the place those land, typically. But in other ways, it's the same. Beeps and buzzers and hisses and nurses coming and going. It just feels slow, and I'm getting sleepy just thinking about it. Maybe there's an interfaith pew in the chapel where I can lie down. I'll let you know.