{"id":11522,"date":"2023-07-26T06:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2023-06-28T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:36:23","slug":"a-liturgy-for-leaving-an-inhospitable-place-of-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=11522","title":{"rendered":"A Liturgy for leaving an inhospitable place of rest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following was taken from the resource we have compiled for pilgrims on the Camino De Santiago. You can get a free digital copy here<\/a>. Downloading and giving your feedback helps us to spread the word. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I were James or John, I would call down fire on this place.\nNo one should be treated in this way.\n\nI am angry.\nI am confused.\nI am discouraged.\n\nJesus, I don\u2019t know what happened.\nWas it me?\nWas it some unknown argument moments before I arrived?\nWas it a hurt or injury from years ago?\nI am lost.\n\nOh Jesus, you know the sting of rejection.\nYou know the feeling of being pushed out into the night.\nYou know the sound of the slam of the door,\nThe click of the lock,\nThe fading footsteps,\nInhospitality.\n\nNow I have felt it.\nI was weary and hoped for rest,\nBut I found resistance.\nI was hungry and hoped for nourishment,\nBut I found crumbs.\nI was alone and hoped for friendship,\nBut I found I was only an inconvenience.\n\nJesus, you know.\nYou know whether this was for me to learn,\nTo see a fault and need within me that must be addressed.\nIf so, please reveal that deficiency within me.\n\nJesus, you know.\nYou know whether this was for me to yearn,\nTo increase my desire for the good country, my true home, your presence.\nIf so, please heighten that longing within me.\n\nJesus, you know.\nYou know whether this was to soften the ache of pain,\nTo use our interaction to ease a stabbing word or act of which I was no part.\nIf so, please reveal yourself and so soothe their pain.\n\nJesus you know.\nYou know whether this was in your redemptive plan\nTo use me as a mirror to a heart that you are seeking to mend.\nIf so, please do your tireless and perfect work in them.\n\nJesus you know.\nYou know whether this was another act to confirm a hardened heart\nTo use another pilgrim as proof of the depravity of a heart turned inward on itself.\nIf so, please break the heart of stone.\n\nJesus you know.\n\nI cannot call down fire, for I too may be consumed.\nOh Jesus, have mercy.\n-------------\nLuke 9:51-56<\/pre>\n\n\n
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