Lenten Pilgrimage

It seems like only yesterday and not almost-forty days ago, that many were smudged with a thumb-full of ash on our foreheads, with the haunting words, "And to dust you shall return." It is humbling, in a world of superficial glamour and glitz, to be reminded that we are a strange, mysterious composition of dirt and water. What gives us life? The One who made the waters dance and the rivers sing; filled the air with dervish-like clouds and vee-formations of geese.

Christians now enter into the "home-stretch," the last few miles and days of our Lenten pilgrimage. Through the joyous sound of "Hosannas!" we turn the bend in the road, down toward Maundy Thursday. The entire Holy Week, our Passion Week, is a paradigmatic design of our earthly pilgrimage: entrance; first steps; journeying onward; drawing to an end; reaching destination...yet moving onward.

In this time of year I am always left wondering, "How will this Holy Week be different than the other weeks of life?"

Pilgrim Peace, Brett

Another first step

Pilgrimages in life are filled with many "first steps" as we branch off and try different avenues and pathways on life's pilgrimage. Today is another important "first step" for the School of the Pilgrim: a blog spot! It is my hope that this blog spot will be another important way of enabling others to understand and perceive that the life we live as people of faith is part of an extraordinary pilgrimage!

Pilgrim Peace, Brett