Sunday, August 6, 2023

Dear God,

Pilgrimage, so different than a vacation!  Pilgrimage is intentional movement toward something of greater good.  If we go on vacation, we can see the sights and report on them when we get home.  But pilgrimage is an interior exercise seeking more than sights and scenes.  Not only can we experience the beauty of places we visit, we also have opportunity to reflect upon creation, the meaning and purpose of life, faith, hope and challenge.  The two together can make for amazing times with you, Creator of the Cosmos and Humankind.

Our spirits can be titillated by the beauty of creation all around us.  But when we combine the beauty of what we see with the One who created it, it is an altogether different experience.  There is more gratitude, wonderment and faith.

I have been both, a vacationer and pilgrim.  There is no comparison.

Open our spirits

to yours,

O God.

Teach us

to look

more deeply,

listen more closely 

and walk

more humbly

with you

wherever we are

and wherever

we go.

Remind us

there is 

always more.

Make us pilgrims,

dear God,

make us pilgrims.

Love, Andrea