Journey Prayer God bless to me this day, God bless to me this night, Bless, O Bless, Thou God of Grace Each day and hour of my life;...

To embark on pilgrimage meant "making a commitment to live in the space of threshold, the liminal space, the place of not knowing how...

If your journey is indeed a pilgrimage, a soulful journey, it will be rigorous. ~Phil Cousineau When it comes to spiritual practice, I...

The Celtic understanding of journeying is peregrination, seeking, quest, adventure, wandering, exile. ~Esther deWaal The weekend arrives...

The spiritual life involves risk. There's no way around it. ~Belden Lane Second day of Lent, and I'm already tempted to give up my quest....

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation-to get away from it all. To set out on pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to...

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness. ~Jamie Arpin Ricci~* This website, Beyond These Shores,...

4 Poems That Changed My Life - fourth installment I first watched the 1952 movie, The Miracle of the Lady of Fatima, years after its...

4 Poems That Changed My Life - third installment Since the postpartum depression of my mid twenties, darkness visits me without an...

4 Poems That Changed My Life - second Installment Although not old, but just enough older than me to know more about life, Carol Flake...

A Poem Well Lived The last day in Wales, our pilgrim group visited a monastic community of Cistercian sisters. After we joined them for...