For the next few days I’m going to be on something of a pilgrimage.  Anyone can embark on a pilgrimage (an outward experience enabling an inner transformation) for any reason, in any place they wish.  The best pilgrimages enable us to mature, think, change, and grow, as Brian McLaren reminds us.

We first must pass through a portal, which may be a decision or passing through an airport departure gate as I did earlier today.

It is the beginning of something unfamiliar, something we’re not quite sure about – but also something which guarantees we will not stagnate, lose purpose, or choke.

We do not have to take a path already existing; we are developing capacity to live in new ways.

Erich Fromm would probably remind us at this point that there Is a path of having and a path of being.  This portal is about being present to more – more of our world, others, and our future Self – rather than having.

What will be your pilgrimage, investigation, expedition, odyssey?