Monday, May 14, 2012

blue pilgrims

this is merely to announce the cognitive shift of
perception and intention of this blog
while maintaining the general title
it is my personal desire to move the conversation
along the lines of christian pilgrimage
for this is the essence of community
this is   'the way'    of which we speak

the implication being that
a reading on this blog is tantamount to
taking a step along the camino
you have participated in a movement
known the world round as a pilgrimage

the choices are immense
one can stop turn back or step forward
tentatively even nontheless

welcome

buone camino

keep the conversation moving


amen

ultreya

!

6 comments:

  1. thoughts/questions:
    -what does it mean to be on pilgrimage?
    -on the way to canterbury they told stories.
    -during my twenties i was always travelling. now i stay put. but my sense of actual change is greater.
    -it's a coke/pepsi kind of country. i want to prefer water. nevertheless, i often crave the fizzle and sugar.

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  2. i think WB what i'm getting at
    is the UR experience of christianity
    from the outset the christfollowers
    saw themselves ON THE WAY

    the movement is both physical and intellectual
    s well as spiritual as i suppose sally would attest

    but in truth i am planning a pilgrimage
    an actual walk along one of the
    caminos del santiago de compostella
    probably the morthern most coastal route

    in fact it has begun
    i'm just working out the steps now

    a person can come along either
    literally
    or in writing or in prayer for
    a good walk
    on
    the
    way

    the web community

    maybe i should write about that

    anyway
    good shoes
    good humour
    good prayer
    anything will help us along

    wisdom of jesus
    lord jesus mercy

    jh

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  3. i may have invented a new word

    morthern

    yikes sonds like a monster name

    morthern of dleglach

    anyway
    i think the plan is to walk from the pyrennes
    to the coast or there abouts

    jh

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  4. we may of course
    encounter monsters along the way
    like morthern of dleglach

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  5. "i'm just working out the steps now"

    Isn't that always the thing? Reminds me of Paul's letter to the Philippians (I think,) "work out your salvation with fear and trembling. If you take the great morthern, you'll have fear and trembling whether you want it or not!

    I once went to Lourdes on the other side of the Pyrenees. I was pretty agnostic at the time, so the thing I remember most were the slugs we found on the trail up the mountain. And the pretty girls I was hiking with. Odd combination that.

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