Day 072p: Alone yet with them All … (June 25, 2019)
The pilgrim’s dance is such an odd jog, to be sure – how one ends up walking mostly fully alone for most of most days; how one befriends all strangers met as if they were Soulmates by default; how for the most part the same “families” of pilgrims wish each other well every morning and then re-greet one another every night – often for weeks on end … And so it was for me on this particular afternoon: mostly alone for most of the day; bonding with Ruth from Australia as though she was the sister I never had; intermittently passing and then being passed by last night’s hostel Friends – until we all arrived in Pimbo somehow within just a few minutes of one another …
“The community of shalom is, by definition, a diversity of people living together in intimate community. And this community of shalom is founded in an ethic of peace that incarnates the Body of Christ by going out into the world as not only the Voice of God, but the Hand of God as well – by verbally announcing with words of gentle kindness that the Divine is present, and by actively embodying the same message via deeds of humble self-sacrifice. The polity of the community of shalom openly rejects the violence of the world, and as such dramatically differs from the structures and powers of the world. Indeed, it stands as a sign of Christ’s vehement rejection of those very structures by virtue of how different it is. Unlike the ways of the world, the community of shalom ever embraces the joyful sacrificial giving of one’s self for the other. And this is what it is to follow The Way of Christ” ~ inspired by C. Andrew Doyle
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