Today’s Reflection
IN THE EARLY Christian era, many Celtic Christians embarked on a kind of pilgrimage called a peregrinatio. Unlike the pilgrimages to the Holy Land undertaken by Christians in the Middle Ages, a peregrinatioInstead, a peregrinatio is a wandering into the unknown. … Essentially a peregrinatio represents travel for the sake of Love, initiated and sustained by the love of God. It calls the traveler to leave all that is familiar, to let go of security and any goals or desires for life except one: to find the place of one’s own resurrection.
Embarking on a peregrinatio today may not take us to distant lands, but it will take us on a pilgrimage to discover who we are and for what purpose God created us. This transformative journey leads to our true home in God where we give birth to our authentic self.
- Karla M. Kincannon
Creativity and Divine Surprise
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Today’s Question
What activity leads you to experience resurrection? Share your thoughts.
Today’s Scripture
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:13, NRSV
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Communion, and the events of Holy Week, and watching The Passion of the Christ help me experience the resurrection. Communion is the most powerful, through it I hear, feel Jesus telling me that through him I have the gift of eternal life. Communion comes all year long.
I especially pray for musicians in church that they are spirit filled and thus are able to help us on our spiritual journey. For a decade I attended a church where the primary language was not my own, yet through music God touched me, spoke to me, and I felt him.
Spending time in nature helps me experience rebirth and nurtures my soul. Attending our all-church retreat and a Sunday school class retreat in the past year have been resurrection experiences for me. And singing in the choir helps me connect with God in a palpable way (as Robert mentioned above).
Gospel and contemporary and traditional and music with different tribal influences (ie: Celtic, Jamaican, Native American, and Soul) influence my resurrection.
When something is not going well, the Scripture that calms me is Ephesians 3:20. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus……… I find peace in knowing that God has something even better for me than I can imagine.