Some Thoughts on Being a Pilgrim
From Inward/Outward yesterday:

Only the walker who sets out toward ultimate things is a pilgrim. In this lies the terrible difference between tourist and pilgrim. The tourist travels just as far, sometimes with great zeal and courage, gathering up acquisitions (a string of adventures, a wondrous tale or two) and returns the same person as the one who departed. There is something inexpressibly sad in the clutter of belongings the tourist unpacks back at home. The pilgrim is different. The pilgrim resolves that the one who returns will not be the same person as the one who set out.
By Andrew Schelling
Source: Meeting the Buddha

Amen, says the postModern Pilgrim. This is a wonderful expression of how I see my life in this postModern world. No, I am not a tourist, nor a relic of the modern age (in spite of my age?). I am seeking each and every day that transformation of life that pilgrimage brings. I am seeking in each and every opportunity of each and every day of this postModern world to discover where and how The Spirit of the Living God is at work. I firmly believe that He is. No doubts. This is the only world we have in which to experience Him. So instead of gathering souvenirs of this life (and the one with the most souvenirs wins- but still dies!) I am out to have experiences and to live with, follow, be in relationship with, and serve God as Jesus has made Him known.

Anything short of that is to miss out on what God has created me- and you- to be.

More to the point, it is a Living God who is always the same but always transforming, revealing what needs to be revealed for the time and place we live. The "old-time religion" worked then. But it must always be the word of God today and the experience of relationship with God today. The postModern world is no less spiritual than any other era. Nor is it more so. It is what it is. After all this is the only time and place in which I am living. I have no choice but to meet God and Jesus in the midst of today.

So, on with the journey.