on the Pilgrimage

When I look around my life, and the people in it, I wonder what defines each individual … what is the essence of who each person is. If one could strip away all the peripherals, what is the one thing that would be left? When I look at some of the people that are in my ‘world’, the term “Christian” comes to mind, as it is a label that a fair amount of people I know identify themselves as such. For example, I occasionally host in a Christian chat room … and there is one host that uses that question as perhaps one of the first out of her mouth … ‘Are you a Christian?’ … and I wonder how that affects the other. (Now there’s a whole entry on its own!! ~ how to be ‘in the world’, how to tear down the walls of the ‘church’ and relocate it in society and not behind closed doors … how to destroy the Christian ghettos that are all over … but I digress … ) I know that in discussion with others that know of a Christian by label only, there is some confusion as to what a Christian is … in f...

The following is an excerpt from a book that I so appreciate and value. In this book, we are reminded just how much God loves us and how, if we are observant and sensitive to the day's events, that God can come to us in the most intimate of ways and connect to us in a way that only we will 'get'. But if we continue to live at the pace of life, which is forever increasing, we will miss those moments in which God seeks to connect with us. It is about creating pauses in our day, so that we are quiet and still, present and waiting to hear the small, still voice of the Savior ... speaking just to me. The following reflects on how movies can provide an opportunity to be a 'window into the soul' ... The Spirit of Life The difference between an intellectual approach to the Scriptures and an intimate approach is dramatized in a scene from The Dead Poet’s Society , starring Robin Williams as Professor Keating. One of my favorite scenes in the movie is a classroom ...