by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 9, 2016 | 30 Pilgrim Reflections And Prayers, Blog
‘Am trembling as I write because I know very well the things You have been demanding that I give up, but I have sneaked around and escaped Your hands each time (or so I thought). My escapist attitudes explain why my cries for spiritual renewal have failed to happen...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 7, 2016 | 30 Pilgrim Reflections And Prayers, Blog
‘Lord I am tired of this self-life that keeps deceiving me and tripping me up. I know the work of the cross is painful, but since that is the only way to be free from the disgusting influence of the veil of the self-life, I invite the work of the cross to do a...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 5, 2016 | 30 Pilgrim Reflections And Prayers, Blog
‘My spiritual faculties are dull but not dead O, God. Because You live in me, they are still alive but not sharp or able to perceive easily. I want to see and hear and taste this real spiritual world around me, this Mount Zion that exists in real time. I know that...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 3, 2016 | 30 Pilgrim Reflections And Prayers, Blog
‘Your world O Lord is all around me, but I need to grow in spiritual receptivity and spiritual immediacy to the divine invitation. You are constantly inviting me upward and deeper, but the physical world is too close and too loud for me. Help me respond to You. Help...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 30, 2016 | 90 DAYS REFLECTIONS FROM PSALMS, Blog
Psalms 19:12-13 (NKJV) ‘…Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless…’ Blamelessness is not just from the avoidance of known sins. The tragedy of the careless life is...