Book description
Are you a seeker, a searcher, a pilgrim? Here is a 'thought for today'
for each day of the year, a 'cairn' on the faint track, showing that
someone has been this way before. Cairns mark turning points on a route,
warnings where there is danger, people and events that are worth
remembering from the past, inspiring us for the future. In deserts, in
mountains, and in the maze of city streets we need help if we are not to
lose our way. Jim Cotter writes from within the Christian tradition as a
'pilgrim soul', often on the edge of the Church, but in touch enough for
the book to be commended by Stephen Lowe, Anglican Bishop of Hulme
(Manchester). Here is a sample, for 31st January: "Constant
exhortations to be good have little or no effect: they merely add to the
burdens of guilt and fear, allies of a cold moralism, rigid and
solemn... Of course you fail...Relax...Admit the shames and pretences,
the pride and the hiding away, the refusal to let your own truth be
seen... Accept that much failure comes from the difficulty of
translating your desire to love into an ability to love well... So let
laughter well up from the deeps, and tears too. Gently shake away the
fear, and begin, slowly, to flow again." Are you a seeker, a
searcher, a pilgrim? Here is a 'thought for today' for each day of the
year, a 'cairn' on the faint track, showing that someone has been this
way before. Cairns mark turning points on a route, warnings where there
is danger, people and events that are worth remembering from the past,
inspiring us for the future. In deserts, in mountains, and in the maze
of city streets we need help if we are not to lose our way. Jim Cotter
writes from within the Christian tradition as a 'pilgrim soul', often on
the edge of the Church, but in touch enough for the book to be commended
by Stephen Lowe, Anglican Bishop of Hulme (Manchester). Here is a
sample, for 31st January: "Constant exhortations to be good have
little or no effect: they merely add to the burdens of guilt and fear,
allies of a cold moralism, rigid and solemn... Of course you
fail...Relax...Admit the shames and pretences, the pride and the hiding
away, the refusal to let your own truth be seen... Accept that much
failure comes from the difficulty of translating your desire to love
into an ability to love well... So let laughter well up from the deeps,
and tears too. Gently shake away the fear, and begin, slowly, to flow
again."
