How lovely is your dwelling place,Reflection: 'Discover the Pilgrimage of your Heart'
LORD of heavenly forces!
My very being longs, even yearns,
for the LORD’s courtyards.
My heart and my body
will rejoice out loud to the living God!
Yes, the sparrow too has found a home there;
the swallow has found herself a nest
where she can lay her young beside your altars,
LORD of heavenly forces, my king, my God!
Those who live in your house are truly happy;
they praise you constantly.
Those who put their strength in you are truly happy;
pilgrimage is in their hearts. Psalm 84.:1-5
"Because we cannot walk together, blessed be our isolation. We offer to you a personal individual self-designed pilgrimage for the 2020 Urban Way of the Cross in Albuquerque. You will find seven brief videos, each from a community leader sharing a story from a suffering neighbor. Discover the pilgrimage in your heart as you pause with us to hear stories from men, women and families without a home, from stewards and guardians of our plundered and polluted Earth, from children with hungry tummies and just as hungry hearts, from refugees who are literally dependent on hospitality for their very lives...
Prayer
Kind God, How we long to be near to you this Holy Week, 2020. How we imagined worshipping in our churches with our companions in faith from Palm Sunday, through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and on to Easter morning…
But, this year our worship must be singular, confined to our homes or standing 6 feet apart in little groups of 5 or maybe 10…
Still, our hearts know how to make this pilgrimage with Jesus…and we commit ourselves to walk with him through places of despair and grief and days and moments of hope. Strengthen us in love that, though physically separated, we will worship in our hearts as a community. Grant that the whole world may know the deep mystery of Christ’s death and resurrection…and bring us healing, wholeness and unity.
Bless us now as we begin this pilgrimage of the heart… in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
May your pilgrimage refresh your soul and may you be content with your heart's leanings.
[Rev. Kay Huggins is interim director for the New Mexico Conference of Churches]
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