The Journey

Excerpts from "The Celtic Way of Prayer" (De Waal)

The monastic life has always been that of continual conversation, moving on, the never-ending transformation of the old into the new...It is also surprising and risky, not necessarily following any clear-cut pattern of having some end and goal in view so that the purpose can be clearly established and then followed. [Lets take a look at] the Celtic understanding of peregrinatio, a word and concept found no where else in Christendom.

The word itself is almost untranslatable, but its essence is caught in the ninth-century story of three Irishmen drifting over the sea from Ireland for seven days, in coracles with out oars, coming ashore in Cornwall and then being brought to the court of King Alfred. When he asked them where they had come from and where they were going they answered that they: "stole away because we wanted for the love of God to be on a pilgrimage, we cared not where."

It seems to me that we to want for the love of God to be on a pilgrimage - may God granted us the will to care not where.

And from my journal:

(song lyrics from entertheworshipcircle)

"When I was a baby you held me close
When I was just a child you showed the way I should go
When I'm old and grey you'll never leave me
You're right by my side

How am I gonna thank you
If I can't get my arms around you

I know that you saved me
but I don't know, I don't know
How far you had to reach
I swim in your deep love
But I don't know, I don't know
How far or how deep
I know that you're good, Lord
But I don't know, I don't know
why you're so good to me"

with wonder,

Tim