Day 148c: What the walking Means … (September 24, 2019)
“The idea and experience of pilgrimage can mean many things: it involves movement of some kind, of course, often through unknown places, though at other times simply between one’s home and the world. Pilgrimages can also be inward, striding into regions of selflessness &/or gentleness towards others through which we have never ventured before. Many travel in search of profit or pleasure or beauty or wisdom, and some journey to labor for their wages or flee from tyranny or sorrow. And yet the pilgrim ever walks for greater Purpose, for the pilgrim ever walks for others … And it is important for us all to realize that it is with us all to defy our more banal expectations of travel and choose to be pilgrims instead; to go out into the world each day to be brave and caring; to serve rather than to be served, and in this way to embrace the risk of being our far greater Selves, so that we might fully breathe life in and know what it is to be truly free … So you tell me you too are a pilgrim, and if so, then our destinations are the same. For this morning I find myself the boatman, walking the road to eternity, pulling a rickshaw to the end of the world. So hop in, my friend, and ride with me awhile. I will see that you arrive safely at the haven of loving kindness.” ~ inspired by Teju Behan, Mae Chevrette & Carolyn Forché
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