pilgrim Pathway

Issues


  • Never Enough

    How do you measure time?  Every time I think about how we live our lives around the issue of time I think of the song from Rent, Five-Hundred-Twenty-Five-Thousand-Six-Hundred Minutes.  That’s the number of minutes in one year.  Sounds like a lot when you see such a big number, but relatively speaking, it’s quite finite. We always think we have…

  • What Does It Weigh?

    I was going on vacation last October and when I put my suitcase on the scale, the agent told me I was one pound over the “free” weight.  He asked if I wanted to pay the extra fee or take something out of my bag.  Well, that was a no-brainer.  I took one thing out of my suitcase,…

  • Oxymorons

    I love when people start rattling off oxymorons.  It gives me a chuckle to hear things like jumbo shrimp, only choice, and working holiday.  Then it comes to times when we’re given news of a health challenge and the world as we know it changes.  Some describe the events from the moment of a diagnosis as a perfect…

  • Paper cuts

    I can’t think of anything more alarming than a paper cut.  Of course, like many other painful experiences, there are different types of paper cuts.  By that, I mean different surfaces or types of paper, inflicting different types of cuts and pain. I wonder how this might apply to our soul?  What does it mean to get a…