The pilgrim life leads us to different places, intersects into the lives of others, can be transient and full of gains and losses. These detours are stories to be shared.
You. Me. As Americans when we see the word pilgrim we immediately think of the Mayflower, Plymouth Rock and Thanksgiving all in association with a group of Puritan settlers in search of religious freedom. In other religious contexts we think of pilgrimages: a journey of one person to a holy place such as Jerusalem or Mecca—a sacred trip towards the holiest of places denying oneself of luxuries to find humility, truth and a spiritual experience.…
Glimpse of Jesus from living as an alien Parts of me must become dormant. The experiences and effort it took to understand and adopt the life and culture of China. I stuff them away like old family photos in a basement. These former things seem irrelevant to the people and place I now exist. By being a foreigner in another land subjecting myself to pointing, learning a new language and adopting new habits to…
Like the prelude to each book of the Bible I must give grounds to who I am; a glimpse into my purpose. I find it difficult to describe myself. Mainly because I dislike the way in which we categorize people, label them into groups, subsection them off and compartmentalize our lives. We are more than what we do, where we’ve been, how high we scored on the SAT, what university we attended or didn’t and…
