Pilgrimage

Ash Wednesday
He’s on the road
PUT waiting for me

today we begin
a forty day walk
to Jerusalem

I lace up my shoes
and follow
PUT from a safe distance

but it’s bound to happen
His eyes will catch mine
and I must summon the courage
PUTnot to look away

for in His loving gaze
questions arise
PUTmemories
PUThopes
PUTand fears

and we will
carry them all
PUT to Jerusalem

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 Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. – Luke 9:51

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Reflection questions for your Lenten pilgrimage

• Where have you seen Jesus on the road?
• What are you carrying?

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For Lent this year, Bishop Melissa Skelton encouraged Anglicans in our diocese to pray with the 6-week series Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John. This offering has been designed and produced by the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a religious order for men in the Episcopal Church, and by the Center for the Ministry of Teaching of the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. There is a video for each day and a lovely journal you can order or download. I’ve already started it and am loving it so far.

Credits:
Photo of hiking boots and scallop shell on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela from Paulo Coehlo forum. Labelled for reuse.
“Pilgrimage of Sight” by Brian Whelan was featured in explore, a magazine from the Ignatian Centre of Jesuit Education in Santa Clara California. The painting is owned by the vicar of Blythburgh Church in Suffolk, UK. Used here with permission.
“Pilgrimage” by Esther Hizsa from Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim, 2015.

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