Forever by Ryan
As the pilgrims from St Albans, Washington DC, headed off on their journey home this morning they were left with a thought from our morning devotional in the Celtic Daily Prayer. The meditation for the day challenges the pilgrims to think how they would feel if, as they returned home, this quote from a famous song would be the description of their experience:
But when I returned how my eyes were burned, to see how that town had been brought down to its knees, by the armored cars and the bombed out bars, and the gas that hangs on to every tree. Now the army’s installed by the old gas-yard wall, and the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher. With their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they done to the town I loved so well?
As this journey in N Ireland came to an end the pilgrims remembered that even though this pilgrimage might be over in reality their pilgrimage with Christ is forever; and as they departed with the thoughts of what they have seen here they can not help but carry it into their lives at home as well.
Thus ends the North Ireland journal…