Seeing the Daily Journey as Pilgrimage
celtic cross
My wife checked out the book from the library called “Journeys of Simplicity” and it consists of vignettes of poems, prayers, and lists of meaningful possessions of over forty spiritual travelers. A few quotes in the book gravitated to my attention that I wish to share with you:
We take delight in things; we take delight in being loosed from things. Between these two delights, we must dance our lives. -Philip Harnden. Quaker author.
The following is a prayer of a Celtic woman over a hundred years ago. It a prayer that transforms ordinary chores into sacraments. Rising in an earthen hut in the cold morning as the rest of the household is still asleep she begins her daily sacred routine; washing her face and tending to the night banked fire:
Splashing my face with three palmfuls of water
God of Life. Christ of Love. Spirit of Peace.
Triune of Grace
Kindling my fire thrice lift the peat
God, kindle in me a flame of love
To neighbor, foe and friend.
My kindred all. Amen.
Navigating life and faced with choices of what to pour energy into I was refreshed to remember the vital importance of maintaining a simple awareness that God is infused in the details of life. Our invitation is to cultivate this way of seeing and be a pure conduit for love to flow….
