A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #3 Availability, encounters and exposure to change

 

Availability and meetings

Paradoxically, the apparent increasing availability of things and people makes our world ‘more unavailable, more unfathomable and more uncertain’. Yet, with so many of us, we want to hold on to it. It seems so unlikely that we would be able to say goodbye to this commercial world. However, going on a journey on this pilgrimage or camino does require that farewell.

For that important journey, it is important that we do not set out alone. We may leave as individuals, but along the way we will meet several people who all have the same dream, to get to where they want to go.

It is during such encounters during the trek that we can be touched by each other. By recognizing that we not only have such questions and that others have similar questions, but also sometimes have answers to what we would like to know. By communicating with each other, we can help each other to come to understand or see things. In this way, a mutual response can take place during the tour. In this way, it can even come to a feeling of being connected. Not appropriating but being moved. By the way, ’emotion’ is derived from emovere: to set in motion. By being open, being accessible, to others, mutual influence can take place and those who meet each other during their pilgrimage can also change with them.

Exposure to change

In this way, everyone’s personality will be exposed to change along the way. There will no longer be a desire for gadgets and knick-knacks, but for what and who that you can never (fully) own.

In our society, far too little attention is paid to the inner self. During a pilgrimage, one is willingly or arbitrarily confronted with the inner self. Each tractor gets to know itself better. As the days go by, the more miles one has travelled, the more the confrontation with one’s self increases. There even comes a time when one can no longer ignore it. One has to confront oneself. Then one may or may not defend oneself, or one may come to the point where one will want to go deeper into oneself and discover that there is a much better self hidden there.

In any case, it is important to think carefully about your pilgrimage before you leave. You can safely consider the how and why.

Hopefully, it has become clear to you that change is needed in your life. Something deep inside you is calling you to take this journey.

What is that urge? What do you desire? Is there something that drives you to undertake this hike? How do you want to change?

Are you willing to change when it counts?

Will you dare to ignore the reactions of those around you and still take your steps?

You may want to choose a special intention for the hike, something or someone you can dedicate your trip to. But eventually you will have to come to realize that the world trip you are about to embark on will not just be a journey to dedicate to others, but that it will initially be about unravelling yourself and fully discovering your own self. But in addition, it will be even more important to discover Who gives your own self a chance to live. The Person behind creation will surely discover you during your trek. You will also notice that that Person will also be able to be your supervisor.

 

Next: To discover Source of life

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Preceding

1. What is a Pilgrimage?
2. Encouraging eachother
3. Prayer at the beginning of our pilgrimage
4. Beginning of a Pilgrimage
5. God’s Words for the Pilgrimage #1 Twentieth Century Man and the Pilgrimage Process
6. God’s Words for the Pilgrimage #2 Words of God for life
7. God’s Words for the Pilgrimage #3 A road on a global scale littered with obstacles
8. A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #1 Embarking on an important journey
9. A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #2 Not a cheap or easy flight but a life journey

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Additional reading

1. Messages leading to an earthly utopia
2. About the Cosmological argument for proving that there is a Creative Deity
3. Creation of the earth and man #22 Man in the image and likeness of the Elohim #6 Spirits, spiritual bodies and illusory perception
4. Creation of the earth and man #23 Man in the image and likeness of the Elohim #7 Corporeal and spiritual change
5. Mind-messing stuff reason for things to change
6. When you are at your lowest point,
7. Within despair
8. Blaming others
9. Doest thou well to be Angry?
10. Do we need to learn to accept ourselves as we are?
11. Responsible for what we are
12. Becoming Conscious
13. Altar everything in life
14. Choices
15. Ability
16. Control and change
17. Control your destiny or somebody else will
18. Losing or getting in control
19. Change
20. Being the change that you wish to see
21. Change will not happen if we do not start getting involved
22. Let go of what you cannot change
23. Start with small steps
24. Yourself changing positively
25. Getting fate in your change to positiveness
26. A Living Faith #8 Change
27. Only I can change my life
28. Every man’s work is always a portrait of himself
29. We all have to have dreams
30. Following a Person or a Belief
31. Growth in character
32. Being aligned with above
33. We will all be changed
34. Sacred Rhythms – Longing for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God
35. A Bible Falling Apart Belongs to Someone who isn’t
36. Writing the Law on the Heart
37. Matthew 18:1-6 Reborn and pliable as a child
38. A strange thing might happen when you come under Christ
39. How should we worship God? #9 Christian Behaviour
40. How should we worship God? #11 New Life in Christ
41. How should we worship God? #12 Renewing the Mind