“I will not rest from my travels, and will drink my Life to very edge of its lees; adoring the times I have greatly reveled, and honoring those in which my suffering has proved suffocating. I will be ever thankful for those who loved me, those who attacked me, and the days I have spent […]
I eventually made it into the town of Mount Carmel, where I stopped into the local Hardee’s for yet another cool drink of tap water. I was sitting at one of its tables and feeling pretty whipped by the whole affair at this point (a feeling that had tended to resurface briefly every now & […]
The key is not to find “the right way” or even “the better path.” The key is to set forth for Goodness each and every moment of our lives, and to ever put one foot in front of the other with that same goal ever in mind … “We may lose many individual battles, and […]
And then once more I found a butterfly lying stunned upon the roadway – once more I paused to bend down to gently carry him over to safety – once more waited while he fluttered his wings anew and flew gracefully onward – and once more knew that yet another day had been well-won … […]
On & on & on I walked, into the days’ steadily sweltering heat – eventually making it to the town of Surgoinsville, where the Smyrna Baptist Church almost mockingly let me know that “God is a God of all comfort”; a verse from the first chapter of 2 Corinthians; a verse written by the faux-apostle […]
“If you recognize the road you’re on, you’ve probably taken a wrong turn … Perhaps walking is best imagined as an ‘indicator species,’ to use an ecologist’s term. For an indicator species signifies the health of any ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment is always an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an […]
And then I came upon the Here’s Hope Community Church, where Pastor Boe was present and invited me in for some water, some encouraged witnessing to my Walk and its embodied Way of Christ, and then – for the very first time on the American portion of my Journey – an offer of seemingly sincere […]
“May there never again be a haze over your eyes preventing you from seeing your life as wondrously as it ever is. Through all the bumps and the twists and the turns in your journey, let your witnessing make you wiser – and kinder – and more grateful – and more Grace-filled. Embrace your life’s […]
And then I came across a small roadside shopping center, wherein rested Cross Ties Antiques. Something about the place called to me, and I entered to ask owner Jenny for a glass of water, and yet received an ice cold can of Coca Cola and a heartfelt hug instead … “Service is a smile and […]
“We are all pilgrims on this earth and in truth are ever strangers. We have all come from afar and we are all going further still … One thing at least remains ever certain: We all must walk, and we all must create our way by our walking. None of us will ever know or […]
This morning I was blessed with an exceptionally smooth roadway that graced me with exceptionally wide shoulders … “One thing I’ve found on my walking: the road rarely rises up to meet you until you actually begin to set forth … And this reminds me that the time for us all to act is not […]
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