Category: Life Lessons
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🌿 Bearing Burdens, Carrying Loads, and Leaving Judgment to God
A Curious Pilgrim Reflection 📖 Scripture for Today Galatians 6:2, 5“Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”“For all must carry their own loads.” Romans 14:7, 12“We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves.”“So then, each of us will be accountable to God.”…
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🌬️ Breathed Into Life: The Spirit Within Us
“Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.” — Genesis 2:7 “Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit.” — Ephesians 5:18 “When he had said this,…
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Loved Into Being: A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Freedom and Personhood
From The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr My Reflection from Today’s Reading Richard Rohr writes about the perfect freedom of God. He describes human personhood not as a static notion, but as something entirely dynamic and relational, shared between the divine persons and all human persons by reason and gift of creation. He writes that…
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Living in the Flow: A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Divine Love
Inspired by The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr A Gentle Question What would change in your lifeif you stopped trying to “get it right”…and instead learned to live in the flow of love that is already holding you? That question has been sitting with me. I can only read a couple of pages at a…
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The Courage to Stay Open: Lessons from the Spirit’s Movement
From The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr I can only read a couple of pages a day in The Divine Dance. Not because it is difficult to understand—but because it is too revealing. It slows me down. It confirms things I have sensed for years but never quite had the words to express. Today, two…
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Vulnerable to the Spirit: Living in the Flow of Life and Love
“The work of the Spirit to keep you growing is to keep you vulnerable to life and love. The major metaphors for the Spirit are always dynamic, energetic, and moving: elusive wind, descending dove, falling fire, and flowing water. Spirit-led people never stop growing and changing and recognizing the new moment of opportunity.”— Richard Rohr,…
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🌿 Trust — The Bridge We Choose to Walk
For the Curious Pilgrim, trust is not naïve certainty; it is a decision to step forward without having the whole map. It is: Trust grows slowly. It is tested by time, truth, and consistency. 👉 A pilgrim learns: Trust is not blind—it is earned light in the midst of partial darkness. ❤️ Love — The…
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“From a Distance We Judge… Up Close We Learn to Love”
Judging from a Distance In business communications, we are taught that we make three judgments when meeting someone: Before we know their story…Before we understand their pain…Before we see their heart… We decide who they are. And sadly, this doesn’t stop at the church door. ⛪ When Faith Becomes Judgment During my years in the…
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🌾 The Curious Pilgrim
From Dick Tracy to Smartphones: Living Faithfully in a Changing World Introduction: When the Impossible Becomes Ordinary When I was a child growing up on a farm in rural Mississippi, our connection to the outside world came through the Grit newspaper. Each week, it brought stories, ideas, and a glimpse of life beyond our fields.…
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