Scripture

Luke 24:30–32 (NIV)

When he was at the table with them,

he took bread, gave thanks, broke it

and began to give it to them.

Then their eyes were opened

and they recognized him,

and he disappeared from their sight.

They asked each other,

"Were not our hearts burning within us

while he talked with us on the road

and opened the Scriptures to us?"

Refrain

My heart burns as I walk with him.

Quote

Brian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences

"If we will stay on the journey,

press on along the pilgrim path,

stay on the road with Jesus,

we will come to understand

the mysteries of Christ

in deeper and truer ways,

and like Cleopas and Mary,

our hearts will burn within us."

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Scripture

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV)

For we live by faith,

not by sight.

Refrain

I make the path by walking it.

Quote

Antonio Machado, trans. Betty Jean Craige

"Wayfarer, only your footprints

are the path, and nothing more;

wayfarer, there is no path,

you make the path as you walk.

As you walk you make the path,

and as you turn to glance behind

you see the trail that you never

shall return to tread again.

Wayfarer, there is no path,

only wake trails on the sea."

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Scripture

Philippians 3:12–14 (NRSVUE)

Not that I have already obtained this

or have already reached the goal,

but I press on to make it my own,

because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own,

but this one thing I do:

forgetting what lies behind

and straining forward to what lies ahead,

I press on toward the goal

for the prize of the heavenly call of God

in Christ Jesus.

Refrain

I press on. I have not arrived.

Quote

John Bunyan, from Pilgrim's Progress

"His burden loosed from off his shoulders,

and fell from off his back,

and began to tumble,

and so continued to do,

till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre,

where it fell in,

and I saw it no more.

Then was Christian glad and lightsome."

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Scripture

Matthew 7:13–14 (NRSVUE)

"Enter through the narrow gate;

for the gate is wide and the road is easy

that leads to destruction,

and there are many who take it.

For the gate is narrow and the road is hard

that leads to life,

and there are few who find it."

Refrain

Truth is a road, and I am walking it.

Quote

Brian Zahnd, from The Last Train Out of Monkey Town

"Truth is not a laminated card

you carry in your pocket,

Truth is a long hard road

and you have to walk it."

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Scripture

Acts 9:2 (NIV)

...and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus,

so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way,

whether men or women,

he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Refrain

I belong to the Way. I am on the road.

Quote

Jack Kerouac, from On the Road

"As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border

I saw God in the sky

in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds

above the desert

that seemed to point a finger at me and say,

'Pass here and go on,

you're on the road to heaven.'"

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Scripture

John 1:14 (NIV)

The Word became flesh

and made his dwelling among us.

We have seen his glory,

the glory of the one and only Son,

who came from the Father,

full of grace and truth.

Refrain

The Word became flesh. This is the greatest wonder.

Quote

Brian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences

"In that numinous moment I whispered a prayer:

God, I want to spend the rest of my life

in a constant state of wonder.

What happened next was wholly unanticipated.

A reply whispered back,

This is the greatest wonder of all —

the Word became flesh and dwelt among us."

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Scripture

Matthew 18:3 (NIV)

And he said:

"Truly I tell you,

unless you change and become like little children,

you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

Refrain

I am learning to see like a child again.

Quote

George MacDonald

"To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down

from the childlike to the commonplace —

the most undivine of all moods intellectual.

Our nature can never be at home

among things that are not wonderful to us."

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