Category: Life Lessons – Experience
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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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With Christ in the School of Prayer
There are classes you take and soon forget. Then there are classes that somehow become part of you. With Christ in the School of Prayer was an elective I took in Bible College. The title came from the book by Andrew Murray, but when I look back now, I realize we were learning far more…
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Grace Was There Before I Knew Its Name
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. It is one of those books I don’t want to hurry through. Sometimes something…
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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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Life Lessons — Experience
Life happens. Some of what happens in my life is the result of choices I make. Some comes from choices other people make. And sometimes events occur that neither I nor anyone around me chose, yet those events change the choices available to all of us. All of these become part of my experience. But…
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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…
