Doctrine III
The Pilgrim Posture
No fixed sanctuary; the road is the chapel.
The pilgrim does not carry a destination so much as a direction. The sanctuary is not a building waiting at the end of the road — the road itself is the sanctuary, consecrated by the walking.
To hold the pilgrim posture is to stop asking when you will arrive and to start attending to the ground beneath your feet. The view changes because you are moving, not because you have stopped.
A theology of unfinished things must be, in the end, a theology of motion.
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