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LIFE AS A PILGRIM

One of the most easily recognized metaphors for life is that it is a journey or pilgrimage full of incident, joys and crises, periods when we are toiling uphill and times when the sun is always shining on our back. Life is a journey with God, with ourselves and with others – a community of pilgrims, learning as we go. Viewed as a pilgrimage, life clearly requires of us the same qualities of courage, determination, flexibility, resilience and hope that we see in the focused, time-limited pilgrimages we undertake in our holidays. In both cases the most important gift to hold on to is the promise of God to be our guardian and our guide.