Word for Today: Transformation If entered into mindfully and with a whole heart, each encounter on the road has the potential to transform. The pilgrim returns home not with all the answers. Instead, they receive better questions; questions that bring the pilgrimage experience into daily life and ... read more

Word for Today: Home Ultimately the pilgrimage leads us back home again. We always return bearing gifts for the community. We are always called back to share what we have been given with others. ---Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey ... read more

Word for Today: Relationship God is never a set of concepts to be understood but a relationship to encounter. In this way, the spiritual life is always a journey. We do not let go once and for all. ---Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey ... read more

Word for Today: Holy Disruption The divine is that power which disrupts everything; it is at heart a great mystery at work. ---Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within Reflective Question: What if our pilgrimage practice courted holy ... read more

Word for Today: Inner Landscape While some physical places and landscapes feel more like home to us, ultimately it is in service to us discovering the primal home within each one of us. ---Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within Reflective ... read more

Word for Today: Stranger [Benedict’s Rule calls me] to welcome in every stranger who comes to the door as the face of the divine…. At its core, it means that everything that seems strange, foreign, or uncomfortable is the place where God especially shimmers forth. ---Christine Valters ... read more