Saturday, November 5, 2016

The Boat

Altars are all around us. Let us pause and pray.  
 

A wise old boatman was taking pilgrims to a shrine. One day someone asked him, 'Have you been to the shrine?' 'No, not yet,' said the boatman, 'because I still haven't discovered everything the river has to offer me. In this river I find wisdom; I find peace; I find God.' But the pilgrims didn't even notice the river; their minds were so focused on the shrine they couldn't see the river. Could that be the story of our lives?"

-- Anthony de Mello quoted in Walking on Water, Madeline L'Engle   
 
photograph was taken in October, 2016 at the Mission Santa Cruz.
    

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