Pilgrim Break: Shoes Off 
©Timothy Charles Geoffrion. Email for permission to copy.

We step
towards God.

Truth
communicates profoundly
with the touch of earth.

Human hearts search for Grace; 
the map was abandoned long ago.

Beauty calls
through the mists of disorientation.

Which direction shall we go?

Perhaps it is wiser to linger
than hurry onward.

Perceptions shift as we wait.
           
God comes
to us.

Romans 8:22-27 (NRSV)

“We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

Mini-pilgrimage

Meditate on the messages and meanings of Hosea 12:6 (NRSV):           

“But as for you, return to your God,
hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”