tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523768879604689510.post8447274138494231020..comments2023-07-21T07:29:52.876-07:00Comments on The Progress of Pilgrimage: De-mystifying pilgrimage: The spiritualityMartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374576843562876501noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523768879604689510.post-14727816732342733872009-11-17T01:21:59.865-08:002009-11-17T01:21:59.865-08:00What the Camino taught me is that feet pray as wel...What the Camino taught me is that feet pray as well, as they walk :-)claire bangasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380558962103134334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523768879604689510.post-84013624570345602242009-10-17T06:53:31.492-07:002009-10-17T06:53:31.492-07:00The single line I remember from collegiate reading...The single line I remember from collegiate reading of Merton is something like this: keeping a journal showed me that I laerned the samethings over-and-over, only deeper. Dear Marty, I think you describe yourself before this walk and yourself learning to be yourself more deeply.<br /><br />DeAneL. DeAne Lagerquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13174676624963036976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523768879604689510.post-28425160818697750352009-10-16T08:15:25.365-07:002009-10-16T08:15:25.365-07:00You are so right! Incarnation happened so that Go...You are so right! Incarnation happened so that God could hold onto something real. Something concrete. Besides the whole of creation, that is.<br /><br />You put it exactly right.<br /><br />and p.s. Thanks for Janet Evanovich and Stephanie Plum, neither of whom is in the least bit ethereal!Martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12374576843562876501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523768879604689510.post-891452765451125262009-10-16T08:08:07.473-07:002009-10-16T08:08:07.473-07:00It reminds me of a day in div school Lisa spent do...It reminds me of a day in div school Lisa spent doing about twenty things, along the lines of 'going to spiritual direction' (herself), visiting her congregation at the jail, preaching? a whole list like that, and then had the audacity to say she had done 'nothing theological' that day.<br /><br />I think there's an awful lot of latent dualism that sneaked into Christianity and Western thought in general.<br /><br />What does it mean that God became incarnate? What does it mean that flesh was something that can hold God? Is 'spirituality' like cinnamon, only really itself in a matrix of butter, flour, and sugar? (Or possibly lentils.)LauraJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09903583499215247315noreply@blogger.com