Category: Traveling Companions-Relationships with Others and self
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Traveling Companions — Relationship with Self and Others
No pilgrim travels completely alone. Along the road, people enter our lives. Some travel with us for decades. Some for a few years. Some for a season. Some for only a brief encounter. Others travel with us from a distance. They may be writers, teachers, musicians, artists, spiritual guides, historical figures, or people we have…
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Traveling Companions: Why The Curious Pilgrim
Friday, August 21, 2026Series: Traveling Companions Recently, I found myself in a conversation with two of the people I work with through AARP Foundation SCSEP in Springfield, Missouri. All three of us are over 55, which means we have accumulated more than a few stories along the way. There was Deborah, a Black woman; Marla,…
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Who Challenges Me?
Series: Mentors Who Changed MeTuesday, August 18, 2026 Who challenges you to use the gifts you have been given? I have been reading A Year with American Saints by G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber. The person featured for August 18 is Jacob Abbott, and I found myself identifying with him. Abbott was born…
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The Reluctant Saints: When God Calls the Unlikely
Category: Mentors Who Changed MeSeries: Who Challenges Me?The Curious Pilgrim I did not grow up studying the saints. Of course, I had heard the names of some of them. In Bible College and Seminary, I encountered people such as Augustine, Ambrose, Francis of Assisi, and others as part of Church History. But studying someone historically…
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Who Challenges Me?
Tuesday, August 11, 2026Series: Mentors Who Changed Me Who is your best friend? What makes that person your friend? Most of us have only a small number of people we would consider our closest friends. That number may seem small, but I believe it is probably accurate. We may know many people during our lifetime,…
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What Book Changed the Way You See the World?
The Seed of Mysterious Grace There are books that teach us facts, and there are books that quietly plant seeds that continue to grow long after we have closed their covers. For me, one of those books was The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church. While studying at Memphis Theological Seminary, I was…
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We All Stand on the Shoulders of Someone
Who has inspired you to become a better person? As I have grown older, I have come to realize that none of us reaches this point in life alone. We all stand on the shoulders of people who believed in us, challenged us, encouraged us, or quietly showed us what it means to live with…
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