{"id":29026,"date":"2026-07-23T02:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lectiodivina.com.au\/?p=29026"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:46:03","slug":"pilgrims-into-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lectiodivina.com.au\/?p=29026","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrims – Into the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Truth \u2013 Knowledge \u2013 Purpose in Life<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our nation\u2019s birth is recent in this ancient land.
Our forebears, many simple and ignorant folk, were exiles
under the care of the law<\/em>.
Discarded by a colonial society of the cold north, they were sent
to a vast, silent, unknown, fragile great southland<\/em>,
with unique creatures, inhospitable soil, relentless sun and ancient peoples.
They engaged in a constant and desperate struggle for a meaningful life,
many left exiles even to themselves.
Through sheer necessity they broke from old world forms of piety
and expressions of civility and brought forth a new language and way of being.
The few pilgrims of faith<\/em>, who came with the northern mob,<\/em>
in community, guided by a love of God and care of souls,
flourished like grassfires in the summer heat.
Sprouting a spirit of hope, dedication and independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As custodians, tenuous is our existence in an
encounter of a world experience of unreflective busyness and economic exchange.
Disconnected, struggling, a modern life marked by song lines<\/em> of
the rational, isolation, ambiguity and change,
constantly chattering to our personal and collective sub conscious.
Sparsely inhabited shrines of stone<\/em> strategically planted on street corners for worship of god, now living symbols of religious indifference.
Uncertainty, tension and corporate anxiety, the new soil for meaning.
Not so the pilgrims of faith<\/em>,
who guided by a love of God and care of souls
seek contemplative ways breaking open people\u2019s hearts and practice
from internal and external imprisonment.
Many continue to trust with loving hearts and minds their experience of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we sit on the edges of and wander in
this vast, silent, unknown and fragile great southland<\/em>,
Imperative – to turn imaginations and hearts to impossibilities and what might be.
Like forebears<\/em> of old we seek the good graces of a simple and uncomplicated life.
Wrestling with affluence and global desires and impeded
by social, religious conformity,
inwardly, we yearn a collective consciousness, marked by souls of –
contemplation, compassion, competence and good conscience.
Now Pilgrims of faith<\/em>,
guided by a love of God and care of souls.
In the spirit of the great adventure<\/em> and in the presence of<\/em> Uluru –
a connecting, transcending and eternal spirit, a living landscape
and foundation of culture.
We are open to be lead in the Ways of – The Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Martin Scroope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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