Category: Traveling Companions-Relationships with Others and self
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The Making of a Curious Pilgrim
Today I began reading The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life by Jim Forest. In the introduction, Forest recalls learning about pilgrims in school—the English Puritans who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower. Later, he discovered the World Book Encyclopedia and began exploring a world far beyond his own neighborhood. His memories…
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Remain Connected to the Source
Pilgrim Series: The Sixth Meeting—Unceasing Prayer and Salvation Source: The Pilgrim Continues His Way, author unknown, translated by Olga Savin, Shambhala, 2001 Over the years, I have heard salvation described in two very different ways. Some speak as though salvation were a single act of God’s grace after which the way we live no longer…
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Saints in My Book
Some saints will never be remembered on a church calendar or written about in a book of saints. Their names may not be known beyond their families, classrooms, churches, and communities. Yet they will always be saints in my book. My parents were among my first saints. They were imperfect people, as we all are,…
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Abby Kelley Foster: When Faithfulness Requires Confrontation
Saint for September 26, 2026Abby Kelley Foster (January 15, 1811–January 14, 1887)Quaker, Abolitionist, and Advocate for EqualitySource: A Year with American Saints by G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber, Church Publishing, 2001 Abby Kelley Foster was raised in a loving but strict Quaker family. As a young woman, she became a teacher. After hearing…
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Lord Jesus Christ, Heal What Is Wounded—Change Me
Pilgrim Series: Reflections on The Pilgrim Continues His WaySixth Meeting In the Sixth Meeting of The Pilgrim Continues His Way, the Professor, the Pilgrim, and the Skhimnik discuss unceasing prayer as a way of entering more deeply into union with God. The prayer they describe is not an incantation. It is not merely mumbling the…
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Melville B. Cox: Planting an Unfinished Work
Saint for Friday, September 25, 2026Melville Beveridge Cox, MethodistNovember 9, 1799–July 21, 1833 Melville B. Cox knew grief, illness, and interrupted plans. Born near Hallowell, Maine, in 1799, he entered the New England Methodist Conference as an itinerant preacher in 1822. Tuberculosis forced him to stop preaching in 1825. He moved to Baltimore, worked in…
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When Love Takes the Risk
“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”—John 15:13 When I read about Clara Louise Maass, I am reminded of the Martyrs of Memphis and many others who entered places of suffering and disease to help people in need. They did not all take the same road, and…
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Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to Seek Truth
Project: The Pilgrim Continues His WaySeries: Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to See*Part 6: Teach Me to Seek Truth Source: The Pilgrim Continues His Way, Author Unknown, translated by Olga Savin, Shambhala, Boulder, 2001. Jesus said: “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the…
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God Uses What Is in Our Hands
Saint for September 22, 2026: Samuel Eli CornishPresbyterian Minister, Abolitionist, Publisher, and Journalist1795–November 6, 1858 “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.” When I read the story of Samuel Eli Cornish, I am reminded that God’s calling is not limited to a church building or a pulpit. God calls people from every…
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Project: The Pilgrim Continues His WaySeries: Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to See*Part 4: Teach Me to See My Neighbor
Source: The Pilgrim Continues His Way, Author Unknown, translated by Olga Savin, Shambhala, Boulder, 2001. Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to See My Neighbor In my last reflection on The Pilgrim Continues His Way, another prayer was added to my School of Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, teach me to see. The Skhimnik has been teaching…
