Signs That God Is with Us – Dec. 14, 2022
“It is one thing to make a pilgrimage to the desert to find God. It is entirely another to be open to finding God where we are… Life is not an exercise in spiritual gymnastics. It is one long, unending attempt to put on the mind of God wherever we are, whatever happens to us […]
Returning Changes – Dec. 4, 2020
“The pathways in the lives of today’s pilgrims first lead away, to places of detachment and withdrawal, yielding a grounding clarity about the world’s realities and spiritual empowerment for the way forward. Then, faithful pilgrims return, walking into the public square with a transforming presence and witness. In the end, pilgrims leave the Empire behind […]
A Reenchanted World – Dec. 2, 2020
“The experiences of a reenchanted world encountered on pilgrimages offer a portal to a far more pervasive truth. These are not just aberrations. Rather, they are clues to how the world really is. The interconnections of life, down to the quantum entanglement of particles mysteriously communicating information, to the synchronicity of trees in a forest […]
See That You Remember – Sept. 14, 2018
“Remember again and again that the true pilgrimage is into the undiscovered land of your own imagination, which you could not have explored any other way than through these lands, with gratitude in your satchel and the compassion for all you see as your touchstone. Recall the voice that spoke to Tolstoy in a dream […]
