The t-shirt………
Many men have a favorite t-shirt they love to sleep in. It’s usually one of their older ones that has been washed many times and is finally soft and comfortable. The logo that is silk screened on the front starts to fade….. such is the case with one of my favorite comfortable shirts. This shirt says “Not all that wander are lost.” It has a deeper meaning for me that what it may first appear to say. Several years ago I named my blog “the pilgrim’s chronicles” and I decided to call myself the pilgrim. The reason is that a pilgrim is someone wandering, often on a religious or spiritual pilgrimage. A pilgrim is someone that is seeking and in the process of growing through his travels.
I think, and I believe most people would like to think, that their lives are a series of travels from point to point, with a plan, a map, a purpose, but I’m afraid that often that is not the case. Because of of circumstances of our own making, or the circumstances that may be caused by others, we often take a, not so fortuitous, route from point to point in life. So, in fact, we do wander in life. I’m not lost, I may wander and I may get off track, but I was found my Jesus, and He saved me. He gave me salvation and forgiveness, and God uses that wandering to teach us the valuable lessons on which we grow stronger and closer to Him. As you wander you draw closer to Him as you learn His ways, and His truths. God also uses your wandering times to show you how faithful He is, and how much He loves you.
Being truly lost means we are without hope, with our Heavenly Father we don’t ever have to be truly lost!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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Bill I love that you are “the pilgrim.” Psalm 84:5 is a key verse in my own life – “Blessed are those whose strength is in You, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” That was the verse for my very first book, Pilgrimage of the Heart. Learning I was a pilgrim literally changed my life and helped me understand that the substance of my life was in the Lord, not the world. So I love that you are “the pilgrim.” And we are meant to be pilgrims, knowing that we can’t set our roots down deep in the temporal things of this world, because our home is in the Lord. And so we live – wandering, as you put it so well – as aliens in a foreign land until we reach our grand destination – face to face with Him in eternity. Blessings to you today, Catherine
Wonderfully said, and filled with real truth! Ready for another workshop!!??
I LOVED our workshop in Red Rock Country. I could do that every day of the week!! On my top ten list for life experiences of all time.
I’m thrilled to hear you say that, makes my day!
there is a story about someone asking Daniel Boone if he had ever been lost. He was gone often times for months even years. Some think he may have seen Yellowsotne, the Tetons even the Pacific Ocean. But his stores of the sights were so wild folks thought he was lying. So he kept his mouth shut and kept moving west. His answer to being lost was, “No, now I have been befuddled for a couple of months.”
In Christ, Dennis McCutcheon
Understood, understood!
MY life in a NUTSHELL
Loved it!
Amen to that!