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5 Ways to Turn Your Ordinary Trip into a Pilgrimage (+ a FREE pocket guide for your next journey)

5 Ways to Turn Your Ordinary Trip into a Pilgrimage

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is nearly here!

I know, I know—you didn’t get that pilgrimage on the calendar that you were hoping for, but you do have that family trip to the beach scheduled, or perhaps that annual camping trip with your college friends. Maybe you’re stay-cationing this year and want your week to be filled with more than binge-watching on Netflix this time around.

Whatever the journey, you can still make it meaningful with some intentionality. Here are 5 ways to turn your ordinary trip into a pilgrimage:

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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E12: Pentecost + the Holy Spirit

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E12: Pentecost + the Holy Spirt

The season of Eastertide is nearly over, with the feast of Pentecost this coming Sunday, marking its fiftieth and final day.

I love that the feast of Pentecost doesn’t begin another season but instead serves as a capstone and sending to the season of Eastertide. After a season filled with the celebration of new Life, the feast of Pentecost is a time to recognize the life that burns within and sends us with that flame to light the ordinary days that follow.

In today’s episode of the Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast Jenn and I are talking about the history of the feast of Pentecost and our experiences of the Holy Spirit, and also exploring prompts and practices to help us follow the thread of the Holy Spirit (or as I like to say, Sacred Guide) in our everyday lives.

Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it with a friend and leaving a review? Here’s how.

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How to Create a Brick Garden Labyrinth

brick garden labyrinth

I’ve envisioned having a labyrinth in our back garden ever since we bought our house nearly two years ago, and I’m excited to say that now we have one!

Two months ago, some friends who had journeyed with us through our miscarriage gathered together on the day that the baby we lost would have been due to mark the occasion by installing a labyrinth in our backyard. Given that I’ve written here about this experience feeling like walking a labyrinth, I couldn’t think of a more appropriate way to spend the day—a day on which, for us, the journey still continued.

In preparation for installing our labyrinth, I searched the Internet for instructions on how to create an easy, affordable labyrinth in a backyard and was surprised to not find many tutorials. Because of this, I decided to document our experience and make my own. Below you’ll find instructions for installing a brick garden labyrinth (we chose brick so we could easily mow over it and use the space for other purposes), though you could also make it out of stone or even plantings. It could be neat to do a seasonal one out of flowers that spring up in summer and fade in the fall! Here’s what you’ll need…

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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E11: Eastertide + Sabbath

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast

For our final conversation during the season of Eastertide, Jenn and I sat down to explore one of my favorite spiritual practices: sabbath.

Because we’ve focused on everyday practices or practices centered on specific holidays or seasons so far on the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast, the practice of sabbath hasn’t come up much in our conversations. However, it’s undoubtedly the practice that has shaped me most over the past few years and continues to do so each time my sabbath day rolls around as well as in the days that follow as the gifts of sabbath find their way into my everyday life.

Learn more about why sabbath is meaningful to me in today’s new Sacred Ordinary Days podcast episode as well as what my practice looks like and, of course, how sabbath connects with the season of Eastertide. Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it with a friend and leaving a review? Here’s how.

SHOW NOTES

Sabbath by Dan Allender (part of The Ancient Practices series)
Even God Rested by Kim Thomas
Sabbath as Resistance by Walter Brueggermann

More posts on sabbath from the archives, as well as its pilgrim equivalent, sabbatical »

GO FURTHER

Do you practice sabbath? How do you cease and feast?

Let us know in the Sacred Ordinary Days Tribe Facebook group or on social media using the hashtag #sacredordinarydays.

Just one month until our Sacred Ordinary Days retreat! Join us in Waco, TX, over Memorial Day Weekend for feasting, fellowship, spiritual practice, and conversation. Space is limited! Learn more and register »

Our Sacred Ordinary Days retreat begins one month from today! Join us in Waco, TX, over Memorial Day Weekend for feasting, fellowship, spiritual practice, and conversation. Space is limited! Learn more and register »

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E10: Eastertide + Celebration

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S!|E10: Eastertide and Celebration

We’re just a week and a half into Eastertide, which means the celebration has only just begun!

This week on the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast we’re talking about the significance of celebrating Easter as an entire season rather than just a day and exploring what it’s like to celebrate well—both during Eastertide and in everyday life.

Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it with a friend and leaving a review? Here’s how.

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