To cut the pilgrimage.
To cut the reality that resembles what we think or want it to be the real is a trend very natural for one who loves and obeys the Master Jesus Christ (We, humans, are like that!).
We want to control and manipulate the contexts of life for what they say what we want to hear. It doesn't matter whether it will cut the true faith, the loyal love, the healthy fidelity, the undisputed compromises, the lucid humanity, the humbleness (and even the freedom and individuality of anyone), depriving them like elements of pilgrimage proposed by the Master.
When we started to use our existential scissors to adapt the pilgrimage to our needs, we deny the pilgrim's start point: "Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me"... in other words: who wants to follow me, he must deny himself now and every day, take his identification with Me and follow me wherever I conduct him.
Therefore, the search of pilgrim is not a form of pilgrimage that best suits of your needs. That 'the deceived' do migrating of one a religious group to another, of a ecclesiastical proposal to another, through TV programs, by books, by preachers or cults.
The pilgrim makes clippings, yes, but in your mind, your feelings, your soul, in his convictions, in his confession of faith, in his practice life, always by the Word of the Master. Thus we find, for example, some words from Paul's letter to the Romans (12:2) - do not use the clipping of the world, but cut your mind with the renovation that lead to good, perfect and pleasing will to God.
Before you grab your existential scissors see what will be cut. The pilgrim has only one action that can and should do: cut yourself to be conformed to the image of the Master.
It's time to cut...
