Category: Life Lessons
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Project: The Pilgrim Continues His Way Series: Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to See: Unceasing Prayer, Part 3
Source: The Pilgrim Continues His Way, Author Unknown, translated by Olga Savin, Shambhala, Boulder, 2001. Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to See The disciples once asked Jesus to teach them to pray. Jesus gave them the prayer we know as the Lord’s Prayer. The Orthodox tradition has also given us what is commonly called the…
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The Laborers Who Answered the Call
Saints — September 20, 2026Jackson Kemper, Episcopalian (December 24, 1789–May 24, 1870) Source: A Year with American Saints, G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber, Church Publishing, 2006. Jesus looked at the crowds and saw the need. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” Then he told his disciples to pray that the…
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Katharine Drexel: Wrestling with the Call
Saint for Saturday, September 19, 2026Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic, 1858–1955 Source: A Year with American Saints, G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber, Church Publishing, 2006. There is something about Katharine Drexel’s story that caught my attention: she wrestled with her call. That word wrestled takes me immediately to Jacob. Jacob was hardly the obvious…
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Before Unceasing Prayer, There Is Unceasing Grace
I have been sitting for quite a while with the Sixth Meeting in The Pilgrim Continues His Way. The Skhimnik is teaching the Professor and the Pilgrim about the mystery of salvation as revealed through unceasing prayer. There is much here that speaks deeply to me. I believe prayer is essential. I believe Paul when…
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God Is Still at Work
Scripture: Philippians 1:6 “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.”— Philippians 1:6 I have been slowly reading The Way of the Pilgrim, and today it led me into Philippians. I didn’t get very far before I…
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What Does the Past Tell Us About the Present?
Series: Life LessonsWednesday, August 19, 2026 In my 76 years of living, I have seen a lot of things change. I grew up on a family farm in Mississippi. Family farms were everywhere then. They were not just businesses. They were homes, ways of life, and often something one generation expected to pass along to…
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What Does the Past Tell Us About the Present?
Life Lessons Wednesday, August 12, 2026 What was your favorite subject in school? I loved history. There is something about the past that speaks to us in the present. I studied American History, Mississippi History, World History, and Ancient History. I even took a course in Church History. History tells us something about how we…
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We Stand on the Shoulders of Someone Who Believed in Us
Saturday, August 8, 2026Pull Up a Rocking Chair Pull up a rocking chair. Let me tell you something I have been thinking about. None of us becomes who we are entirely on our own. We are influenced by music we have heard, books we have read, television shows and movies we have watched, places we…
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God Redeems Our Detours
Life Lessons August 6, 2026 When I answered God’s call to ministry as a teenager, I had no idea where that journey would lead. My experience was limited to small country churches served by faithful pastors who farmed, logged timber, taught school, or worked other jobs during the week. They loved Christ and faithfully served…
