Day 11 - THE MAGI ARE MOVING

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The Advent Series continues here:

http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/magi-are-moving.html

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A PRAYER AND A POEM FOR THE ROAD

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May I love this day and all that it brings
The dust, stones or mud beneath my feet
The air I breathe, food I eat, water I drink
May I open my heart to mysteries along the way
Greet fellow pilgrims with welcome and grace
Move lightly and simply through the day

May I give thanks for the Earth, our fragile home
For all my relations who have gone before me
And for all who will follow ... I am not alone

May the spirit and blessing of the One who is love -
Holy One among us, all around us, and within us -
Be with me today, and surround me with love

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Diane Ransom

A prayer she composed for a pilgrimage in Spain

to the shrine in Compostela on the ancient

Camino de Santiago.

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We are pilgrims on a journey,
We are travelers on the road;
We are here to help each other
Walk the mile and bear the load.

I will weep when you are weeping;
When you laugh I'll laugh with you.
I will share your joy and sorrow
'Til we've seen this journey through.

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Richard Gillard

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THE MAGI WERE REAL - THIS STUFF HAPPEND

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The distance from Ur, or that area
of Mesopotamia (Babylonia on the map - on the right),
where the wise men came from, to Bethlehem,
near Jerusalem on the left side of map,
by the Mediterranean Sea, is well over 500 miles,

a journey of many weeks by camel -
following the trade routes from oasis to oasis

 across the northern reaches of the Arabian Desert.
The Urantia Book says of these men:
"These priests from Mesopotamia had been told
sometime before by a strange religious teacher
of their country that he had had a dream in which
he was informed that 'the light of life' was about to
appear on earth as a babe and among the Jews.
And thither went these three teachers looking for
this 'light of life.' After many weeks of futile search
in Jerusalem, they were about to return to Ur
when Zacharias met them and disclosed his
belief that Jesus was the object of their quest and
sent them on to Bethlehem, where they found the babe
and left their gifts with Mary, his earth mother.
The babe was almost three weeks old
at the time of their visit."

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We did a day's chapter in our ADVENT SERIES 2011

titled "The Magi Are Moving."

It has imagery, music, a reading of

"The Journey Of The Magi" (T.S. Eliot)

by Sir Alec Guinness, and lots more.

See it here:
http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/magi-are-moving.html

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