Day 144e: At HOME in all places Foreign … (September 20, 2019)
“What his ego sought was always something lying just ahead, and yet even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveler’s past changes according to the route he has followed: and by that I mean not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but rather the more remote past. Walking along each new roadway and arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what he no longer is and what he no longer possesses lies ever in wait for him in all foreign, unpossessable places … And so it is that pilgrimage, when walked rightly, is fatal to all prejudice and hatred and bigotry and even callousness. And that is why so many of our people need pilgrimage – or something spiritually similar – sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of life. We must all venture bravely forth instead – into strange places and into the lives of strangers … And this is how we can powerfully live out God’s plan for our lives — by living God’s Way one day, and one step, and one encounter at a time.” ~ inspired by Ital Calvino, Mark twain & Elizabeth George
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