A New and Committed Pilgrimage

by Julie Walton, Ph.D./Calvin College

Unlike the animals, our upright walk frees our hands.  Think of all the work your hands have done!  Think of all the work God still has for your hands to accomplish!  Think of all the times you folded those hands in prayer, or used them to wipe away tears! Now think about your feet– all the places they’ve been, how they’ve held you up all these years, all the times they’ve ached to sit, or itched to get out and walk. 

What if you could combine your need for fresh air, for exercise in God’s creation with the folding of your hands for prayer and fellowship with God?  What if I told you an easy secret for doing both every day?  Would you believe it?  Walking (exercise) and prayer are disciplines.  They take discipline, and they create discipline.  As godly women, we ache to be better– to be more fit, to eat healthier, to lose weight, to be more consistent in our prayer life, to read our Bibles with hunger and thirst for wisdom, and to spend time– that precious commodity– alone with God.

Ah, time!  You will tell me you don’t have any time, that’s why your disciplines are so out of whack as it is. But you do have time– time to get to bed earlier, and get up earlier in the mornings.  “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”  Mark 1:35
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