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April 24: Borderlands – Pilgrimage of Resurrection
(A Creative Journey through the Easter Season)

Pilgrimage of Ressurection

Word for Today: Borderlands

April 24 - BorderlandsThresholds, liminal space, being on the edge, living in the borderlands when we have a spirituality that is committed to exploring these rich places, is the opposite of comfortable, safe, secure, boundaries, rigid, and unquestioned.

—Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within

 Reflective Question: Can you acknowledge that you simply don’t know what is to come? Can you allow yourself to surrender to something bigger and more meaningful, even as it calls us away from familiar patterns that are loved?


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2 Responses

  1. BORDERLANDS

    “Open my eyes that I may see
    Your presence, Lord, about me.”
    (From Border Lands, The best of David Adam)

    Courage, little one. I am with you always.

  2. “borderlands”

    breathing in
    we say yes
    answering the call
    of our hearts

    breathing out
    we step into
    the unknown ~

    with deep gratitude