Pilgrim’s progress…
Posted by Terry Nelson on Jan 2nd, 2008
Traveling without moving.
Sometimes the pilgrim will work amongst men, live amongst them - yet as a stranger in a strange land. Sometimes he will appear to be a fool, and may in fact be one. He will be poor and homeless - even though he may live in a house. He will most certainly be poor in friends and family… without attachment, although not without loving sorrow. He will strive to imitate his lover, whom he unceasingly seeks, “who was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity. One of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.” If he achieves that, he will find peace.
“Acquire the spirit of peace, and a thousand souls around you will be saved” - St. Serphim of Sarov
