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From Our Members

In a world, in a Church, in lives that are faced with constant change, how do we try to find our way, our path?

By Sr. June Hansen, CSJ

God speaks to Abram, and to us in Genesis: “Leave your country...for the land I will show you.” A spiritual life is always a journey, a pilgrimage of the heart, as we seek to know God and we seek to bring this God we love to the world in ever-changing ways.

We leave “our country,” the comfortable ways we have known, the ways we have learned to be Church, to be spiritual women and men. We leave on a pilgrimage of the heart as God shows us to a new land, a land where women and men are called upon to take new journeys, to serve in new roles. This is a pilgrimage in which all of us are challenged to walk in new ways to meet the needs of God's people.

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee,” the old spiritual song sings to us. Can we see our lives as an ongoing journey, as a walk with God, a walk to God? Sometimes this journey calls us to set down footsteps in places not really of our own choosing, ever open to walking in God's way.

Our Scriptures overflow with sources of inspiration for the journey. In your daily prayer, on your daily walk, try reflecting on some of these passages:

Psalm 119: 1-3
Isaiah 43: 1-2
Micah 6: 8
Matthew 4: 18-22
John 12: 35-36.

Reflective literature also provides sustenance for the journey as in this excerpt from John Henry Newman: Lead kindly Light... Lead thou me on; Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. Lead thou me on.

Sr. June Hansen, CSJ, is director of the CSJ archives department.