Living as a wanderer The Pilgrim Life

You’re Displaced Too

“We like everyone else, are pilgrims on the way.” Compassion, pg. 61 Displacement. A very relevant word for our globalized world. The movement of people across the globe far surpasses the migration during the Industrial Revolution or the expansion of the Roman Empire. Population growth, along with other causes varying from political unrest and human trafficking to globalization and job accessibility, has caused the world’s cultures, customs, habits, and differences to now live directly next…

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Guest pilgrims sharing their story The Pilgrim Life

4,3,2,1 Summer Break!!!

It’s the Final Countdown This is the song my family plays as we turn into our neighborhood after a long journey. We’ve come to the end of our travels and rock our way into the final stretch. It’s motivating, exciting, and can be played really loud in the car. It’s the best bookmark to any great adventure. In Michigan we had a long, gray and depressingly cold winter. I’ll take birds chirping at 5 a.m.…

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Guest pilgrims sharing their story The Pilgrim Life

Souvenirs

The Pilgrim Life Waiting

Mind the Gap

Reflections & Ponderings Spiritual Formation The Pilgrim Life

Beautiful Mess

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end[…]I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3:11 & 14 Thailand’s night markets teem with tourists from around the globe all in search…

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